Aldous Huxley Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• ... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

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

• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Humility, Reality

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley (p. 22-24), 1954.

• One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Belief, Brave New World Technology

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

• Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving, Belief, Dear God

• If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Games, Play

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

• Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Believe, Belief

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Ambition, Frustration

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

• What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Mean, People

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.54, Random House

• Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Business, Believe

  Proper Studies (1927) "Note on Dogma"

• The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Men, Data

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