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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 11

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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Forgiveness, Men, Self

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

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

Giving, Belief, Dear God

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Tragedy, Looks, Comedy

1952 The Devils of Loudun, ch.11.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Blessed, Sleep, Blessing

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

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Art, Mean, Men

Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

Two, Desire, Tasks

Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.157, Transaction Publishers

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Mean, Attention, Pay

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

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

Believe, Night, Thinking

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Bears, Silent, Witness

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Fate, Soul, Literature

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

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

Government, Sides, Anarchist

Aldous Huxley (1970). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

Brother, Men, Sheep

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

Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

Taken, Eye, Feet

Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Country, Dope, People

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

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.

Inspirational, Birthday, History

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

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

Home, Ignorance, Journey

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Taken, Progress, Gains

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Brave New World, Unhappy, Syphilis

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

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

Disappointment, Holiday

Aldous Huxley (2011). “Crome Yellow (克羅姆．耶婁)”, p.741, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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

Writing, Mind, Persons

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

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Fear, History, Atheism

Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 31

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

People, Needs, Facts

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

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Peace, Kindness, Advice

"Aldous Huxley - A Tribute" by Huston Smith, The Psychedelic Review, Volume 1, No. 3, Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue, pp. 264-265, 1964.

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

Spiritual, Knowledge, Matter

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

Hero, Heroic, Interest

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