Aldous Huxley Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

• The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Stupidity And Ignorance, Way

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

• Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Speed, Modern, Pleasure

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

• Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

  Aldous Huxley

  Determination, Bored, Majority

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

• Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

  Aldous Huxley

  Christian, Mistake, Sacrifice

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

• Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Reading, Past

  Aldous Huxley (2013). “Crome Yellow”, p.163, Courier Corporation

• Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

  Aldous Huxley

  Gratitude, Grateful, Men

• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

• Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

  Aldous Huxley

  Laughter, Pain, Emotional

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Pain, Order, Giving

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

• By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

  Aldous Huxley

  Gay, Night, Church

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

• To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, People, Profound

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

• If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Sleep, Cat

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

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