Aldous Huxley Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

  Aldous Huxley

  Home, Men, Two Worlds

• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

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

• ...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Home, Mind, Reassuring

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

• ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fall, Home, Rocks

• Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.

  Aldous Huxley

  Girl, Home, Boys

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

• To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Distance, Home

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

• So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

  Aldous Huxley

  Home, Ignorance, Journey

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