Aldous Huxley Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Animal, Men

  Readers Digest, 1934.

• Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

  Aldous Huxley

  Animal, Atheism, Cows

  "Do What You Will". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1929.

• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Atheist, Fear

  1932 Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

• Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

  Aldous Huxley

  Christian, Buddhist, Attitude

• To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Animal, Mind

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

• To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Animal, Reality, Goal

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

• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Drinking, Animal, Thinking

• If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

  Aldous Huxley

  Military, Animal, Perfect

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Point Counter Point”, p.108, Random House

• War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Animal, Law

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism”, London : Chatto & Windus

• The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Animal, Humanity

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