Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 9

• The silent bear no witness against themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Bears, Silent, Witness

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hell, Incapacity, Creatures

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ideas, Literature, Huxley

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

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  Death, Dying, Lasts

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Time Must Have a Stop”, p.181, Random House

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  Aldous Huxley

  Moral Behavior, Numbers, Quality

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

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  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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• If you want to write, keep cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Cat, Want

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

  Aldous Huxley

  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.

  Aldous Huxley

  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.

  Aldous Huxley

  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.

  Aldous Huxley

  God, Sacrifice, Self

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

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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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• Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

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  Men, Doe, Existence

  1932 Texts and Pretexts, introduction.

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Results, Strain

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

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Time, Intuition, Duration

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

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Soul, Principles

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

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

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• ...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

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  Doe, Matter

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Meditation, Grace, Soul

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• Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

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  Grace, Doing Your Best, Ready

  Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith (2013). “The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment”, p.17, Harper Collins

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