Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 17

• Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

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  Life, Education, Philosophy

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

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• An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

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  Self, Personality, Scales

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.124, Ivan R. Dee

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• Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

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  Knowledge, Virtue, Knows

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• The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

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  Self, World, Action

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• Happiness is never grand.

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

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• Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

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  Self, Grace, Helping

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

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• The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

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  Gun, Fire, Bangs

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• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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  Death, Ambition, Frustration

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

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• Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Reflection

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

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• I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

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  Civilization, Wickedness, Tone

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

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• Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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  Yoga, Health, Men

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• We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

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  Good Work, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology

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

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• I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

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  Nasty, Being Myself, Brave New World Happiness

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• The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

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  Self, Feelings, Outsiders

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

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• Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

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  Romance, Energy, Monogamy

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• For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

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  Travel, Sacrifice, Vices

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

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• Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

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  Christian, Golden, Communist

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

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• "All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
  "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."
  There was a long silence.
  "I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

  Aldous Huxley

  Pain, Cancer, Long

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

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• The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.

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  Taken, Men, Data

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• A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.

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  Character, Men, Average

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

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• If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

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  Writing, Cat, Novelists

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

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• Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

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  Home, Men, Two Worlds

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• The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Wall, Ignorance

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley, www.theguardian.com. 1954.

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• God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

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  Civilization, Medicine, Choices

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• Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

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  Mind, Assonance, Alliteration

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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