Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 13

• Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

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  Real, Progress, Charity

  "Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals".

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• Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

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  Civilization, Savages, Agree

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

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• The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

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  Ideas, Mind, Important

  Quoted as the opening passage of "BOOK ONE: The Functions of Language" in "Language in Thought and Action" by S. I. Hayakawa, (p. 3), 1949.

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• In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

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  Movement, May, Ascent

  Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

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  Taste, Facts, Mass

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.57, Random House

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• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

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  Writing, Individuality, Literature

  "Stories, Essays, & Poems".

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• Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

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  Drinking, Animal, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Men

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• Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

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  Education, Teaching, Mind

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile”

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• Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

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  Men, Iron, Age

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• ...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

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  Doe, Matter

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• Let us be kinder to one another.

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  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

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• Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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  Art, Suffering, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay: And The Gioconda Smile”

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• The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.

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  Art, Eye, Ducks

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

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  Form, Strings, Thread

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

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• What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

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  Philosophy, Mean, People

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.54, Random House

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• Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

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  Way, Wells

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

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• And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

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  Play, Age, Technique

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• The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

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  Love, People, Violent

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

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• Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

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  Creative, Helping, Realizing

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

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• Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

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  Wisdom, Consistency, Mind

  'Do What You Will' (1929) 'Wordsworth in the Tropics'

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• The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

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  Eye, Men, Views

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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  Luxury, Literature, Dull

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

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• Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

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  Brave New World, Looks, Misery

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

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• [...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

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  Kings, Holiday, Technology

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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