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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 12

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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

Desirable

Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Brave New World, Community, Individual

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

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

Men, Statistics, Simplify

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

Love Is, Shelter, Unattainable

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Judging, World, Wells

Aldous Huxley (1954). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

Hands, Solitude, Feelings

Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Harper Collins

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?

Art, Thinking, Feelings

Aldous Huxley (1959). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

Believe, Games, Play

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Happiness, People, Literature

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

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Brave New World, Destiny, People

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Culture, World, Pay

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.134, Sheba Blake Publishing

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Knowledge, Science, Darkness

1925 Views of Holland.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Nasty, Said, Brave New World Technology

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

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Ideas, Mind, Important

Quoted as the opening passage of "BOOK ONE: The Functions of Language" in "Language in Thought and Action" by S. I. Hayakawa, (p. 3), 1949.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Brave New World, Tasks, Addresses

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

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Intelligent, Men, World

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Criticism, Parody, Caricatures

Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 28

Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Men, Iron, Age

...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

Doe, Matter

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Civilization, Savages, Agree

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

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.

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Education, Teaching, Mind

Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile”

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Men, Evil, Would Be

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

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Real, Progress, Charity

"Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals".

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

Gratitude, Grateful, Men

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