Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 11

• Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving, Belief, Dear God

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• 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.

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  Book, Reading, Past

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

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• Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

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  Evil, Mind, Prohibition

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

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• Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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  Knowledge, Science, Darkness

  1925 Views of Holland.

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• Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

  Aldous Huxley

  Jesus, Men, Names

  "Do What You Will" by Aldous Huxley, (p. 3), 1928.

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• What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

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  Fate, College, Expression

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• No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Holiday

  Aldous Huxley (2011). “Crome Yellow (克羅姆．耶婁)”, p.741, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

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  Political, Important, Capacity

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

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  God, Spiritual, Inner Peace

  Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith (2013). “The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

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  Art, Thinking, Littles

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.236, Transaction Publishers

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• I am I, and I wish I weren't.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wish, Chaos

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• The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

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  Forgiveness, Men, Self

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

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  Blessed, Sleep, Blessing

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

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• We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

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  Tragedy, Looks, Comedy

  1952 The Devils of Loudun, ch.11.

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

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  Gay, Night, Church

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

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• Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

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  Art, Mean, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

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  Two, Desire, Tasks

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.157, Transaction Publishers

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• The only truly consistent are the dead.

  Aldous Huxley

  Consistent

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• 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.

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  Home, Ignorance, Journey

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• Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

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  Fear, History, Atheism

  Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 31

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• My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

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  Fate, Soul, Literature

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

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• Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

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  Taken, Eye, Feet

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

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  Brother, Men, Sheep

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

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• It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Kindness, Advice

  "Aldous Huxley - A Tribute" by Huston Smith, The Psychedelic Review, Volume 1, No. 3, Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue, pp. 264-265, 1964.

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• My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

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  Government, Sides, Anarchist

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

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