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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 13

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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Writing, Individuality, Literature

"Stories, Essays, & Poems".

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

Way, Wells

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

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

Taste, Facts, Mass

Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.57, Random House

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Wish, Chaos

What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

Philosophy, Mean, People

Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.54, Random House

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Art, Suffering, Literature

Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay: And The Gioconda Smile”

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Form, Strings, Thread

Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

Let us be kinder to one another.

Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.

Art, Eye, Ducks

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

Creative, Helping, Realizing

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

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Play, Age, Technique

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

Looks, Innocence, Thrive

"Island".

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

Wisdom, Consistency, Mind

'Do What You Will' (1929) 'Wordsworth in the Tropics'

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

Eye, Men, Views

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

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

Men, Discovery, Finals

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

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Luxury, Literature, Dull

"Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

Brave New World, Looks, Misery

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

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Wisdom, Silence, Sculpture

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

Past, Brave New World, Years

Aldous Huxley (2002). “Brave New World”, Spark Notes

[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

Kings, Holiday, Technology

Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

Destiny, Patterns, Chance

Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.24, Harper Collins

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

Mean, Civilization, Class

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

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.

Believe, Humble, Men

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

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

Smile, Men, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

Giving Up, Humility, Reality

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