Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 4

• People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

  Aldous Huxley

  Work, Reality, People

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• Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

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  Country, Children, Giving

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.215, Random House

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• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

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  Self, People, Certain

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Failure, Math

  Quoted in J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

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• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 239), 1979.

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• The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

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  Lying, Men, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee

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• Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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  Reading, Book, Writing

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

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• Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Glitter

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• No social stability without individual stability.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Individual, Social

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

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• life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

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  Life Is Short, Information, Life Is

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.21, Random House

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• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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  Change, Life Changing, Yoga

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Views, Silence

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

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• We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

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  Compassion, Long, Treats

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• Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

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  Men, Self, Earth

  Introduction to "Bhagavad-Gita : The Song of God", translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, 1944.

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• This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

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  Men, Thinking, Want

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• Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

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  Liberty, World, Cages

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• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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  Education, Children, Teaching

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

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  Trying, Boat, Sinking

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• Words are good servants but bad masters.

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  Passion, Masters, Water And Fire

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• If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

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  Wisdom, Winning, Gamble

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• It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

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  Past, Matter, Remember

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• So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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  Men, Long, Political

  Ends and Means (1937) ch. 8

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• One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

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  Monday, Life Is

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• Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

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  Spiritual, Ethical, Individual

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

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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  War, History, Facts

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

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