Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 9

• The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

  Aldous Huxley

  Morning, World, Lambs

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• The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.

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  Art, Philosophy, Self

  Aldous Huxley (2012). “The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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  Cheating, Patriotic, Bully

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

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• Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

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  Art, Political, Pageantry

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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• The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

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  Meditation, Grace, Soul

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• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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  Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

  1925 Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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

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• Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

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  Writing, Mind, Persons

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

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• There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop.

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• Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure--chemically pure, I mean,... not morally.

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  Girl, Art, Real

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• Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

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  Philosophy, Hinduism, Core

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• Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

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  Hell, Incapacity, Creatures

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

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• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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  Country, War, Tyrants

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

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  Real, World, Truth Is

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

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  Science, Circles, Literature

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

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• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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  Inspirational, Birthday, History

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

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  Artist, Significant, Form

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

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• Dream in a pragmatic way.

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  Dream, Way, Pragmatic

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• God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

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  Memories, Son, Past

  Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs (2013). “The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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  Dog, Animal, Men

  Readers Digest, 1934.

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• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

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  Communication, Humility, Reality

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley (p. 22-24), 1954.

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• One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

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  Philosophy, Believe, People

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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  Intelligent, Men, Cynical

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

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• Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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  Children, Curiosity, Vision

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

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• There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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  God, Sacrifice, Self

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

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