Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 9

• Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

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  Ignorance, Responsibility, Numbers

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

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  Gratitude, Thinking, Tongue

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• Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

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  Life, Running, Motivation

  Aldous Huxley, Grover Cleveland Smith (1969). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

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• If you want to write, keep cats.

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  Writing, Cat, Want

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• Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

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  Results, Strain

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop.

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• ... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

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  Thinking, Oneself

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

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  Cat, Men, Wife

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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  Knowledge, Science, Darkness

  1925 Views of Holland.

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• There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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  God, Sacrifice, Self

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

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  Intuition, Language, Spite

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.

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  Art, Philosophy, Self

  Aldous Huxley (2012). “The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

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  Time, Intuition, Duration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

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  Drinking, Animal, Thinking

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• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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  Dog, Animal, Men

  Readers Digest, 1934.

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• Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

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  Love, Soul, Principles

  "The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell".

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• Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

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  Brave New World, Looks, Misery

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

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  Fear, Liberty, Politics

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

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  Majority, Logic, Reason

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

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  Meditation, Grace, Soul

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• At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.

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  Sympathy, Pain, Eye

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• Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

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  Peace, Long, Hypocrisy

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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  Children, Curiosity, Vision

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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  Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

  1925 Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.

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• In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

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  Dog, Years, Doubt

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