Aldous Huxley Quotes About Chaos

Quotes about: Chaos

• That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reality, Common Sense, Brain

• I am I, and I wish I weren't.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wish, Chaos

• Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

  Aldous Huxley

  Technology, Government, Ineptitude

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

• Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil, Necessary Evil, Chaos

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

• Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Brain, Spiders

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