Aldous Huxley Quotes About Losing

Quotes about: Losing

• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

  1925 Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.

• The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Roots, Ties

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

• Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?

  Aldous Huxley

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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