Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

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  Passion, Men, History

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

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• But every one belongs to every one else

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  Brave New World, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology

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

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• Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

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  Evil

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

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• Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

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  Grace, Doing Your Best, Ready

  Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith (2013). “The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

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  Time, Blood, World

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• Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

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  Alive

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

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  Art, Emotional, Abuse

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.237, Transaction Publishers

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• For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

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  Buddhism, Atheism, World

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• Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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  Ideas, Literature, Huxley

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

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  Brave New World, Masters, Supreme

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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  Love, Emotional, Tears

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

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• That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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  Equality, Men, Literature

  Proper Studies (1927) "The Idea of Equality"

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• The only consistent people are the dead

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  People, Consistent

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• The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

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  Vision, Impossible, Kind

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

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• We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

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  Morality, Creationism, Meaninglessness

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Boring

  Limbo (1920) "Cynthia"

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• The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

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  Past, Done, Next

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• The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.

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  Religious, War, Buddhism

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• After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

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  Reading, Thinking, Self

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

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  Book, Fall, Reading

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• I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

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  Bullying, Fun, Responsibility

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

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  Brave New World, Men, Brave New World John

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

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• For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

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  People, Battle, Would Be

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

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  Journey, Long, Intellectual

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

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  Happiness, Brave New World, Joy

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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