Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 12

• All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Unhappy, Syphilis

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

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• Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Years, Two

  "The Shortcut: 20 Stories to Get You from Here to There". Book by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179, 2006.

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• The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Needs, Facts

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

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• Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, World

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

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• Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

  Aldous Huxley

  Hero, Heroic, Interest

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• Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Progress, Gains

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• It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Night, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Desirable

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nasty, Said, Brave New World Technology

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

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• Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love Is, Shelter, Unattainable

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• In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

  Aldous Huxley

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Matter

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• We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hands, Solitude, Feelings

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• When the individual feels, the community reels.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Community, Individual

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

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• I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

  Aldous Huxley

  Judging, World, Wells

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Games, Play

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

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• Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, People, Literature

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

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• Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Statistics, Simplify

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• It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Destiny, People

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• We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

  Aldous Huxley (1959). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

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  Culture, World, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.134, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Looks, Innocence, Thrive

  "Island".

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• If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

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  Brave New World, Tasks, Addresses

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

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• Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Criticism, Parody, Caricatures

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 28

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• The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Evil, Would Be

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

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