Aldous Huxley Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, People, Promise

• The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Mind, Religion

• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 239), 1979.

• All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Giving, Religion

  "Island". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1962.

• 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'.

• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

• Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

  Aldous Huxley

  Fun, War, Yesterday

• Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, History, Atheism

  Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 31

• Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

  Aldous Huxley

  Atheism, Christianity, Accepted

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

• Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Doubt, Secret

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

• For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

  Aldous Huxley

  Buddhism, Atheism, World

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