Aldous Huxley Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Struggle, Passion

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

• Words are good servants but bad masters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Masters, Water And Fire

• I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Want, Feels

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

• Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Civilization, Settings

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

• From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Men, History

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

• You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Mother, Children

• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Height

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Madness

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

• Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Passion, Reality

  Aldous Huxley (2017). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals”, p.153, Routledge

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