Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 14

All Quotes Abuse Addiction Advertising Age Alcohol Anarchy Art Atheism Belief Brave New World Chaos Character Children Choices Christianity Communication Consciousness Contemplation Country Culture Death Democracy Desire Destiny Dictator Doubt Dying Economics Education Effort Environment Evil Experience Fate Fear Feelings Freedom Funny Genius Giving God Goodness Grace Gratitude Happiness Health Heart Heaven Hell History Holiday Home Horror Humanity Humility Hurt Hypocrisy Ignorance Insanity Inspirational Inspiring Intuition Journey Joy Justice Kissing Knowledge Language Learning Liberty Life Listening Literature Love Lust Lying Madness Memories Morality Morning Motivational Music Nature Pain Passion Past Peace Personality Philosophy Pleasure Politics Positive Prayer Prejudice Progress Prosperity Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Religion Responsibility Risk Sacrifice Science Silence Sin Sleep Society Solitude Son Soul Study Suffering Talent Teaching Technology Temptation Time Tradition Travel Truth Tyranny Understanding Virtue Vision Wall War Water Wife Wine Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Imagination, World, Realizing

Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.

Stars, Hate, Men

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Time, Blood, World

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

Irrelevance, Psychology, Term

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

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

Goal, Ought

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

Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system

Men, Irrelevance, Origin Of Life

Aldous Huxley (1992). “Huxley and God: essays”, Harpercollins

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

Enormous Quantities, Alcohol, Heaven

Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.32, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

Two, Twenties, Done

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

Book, Men, Two

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

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

Art, Emotional, Abuse

Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.237, Transaction Publishers

But every one belongs to every one else

Brave New World, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology

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

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

Bad Day, Simple, Listening

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed, Modern, Pleasure

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

The flower of the present rosily blossomed.

Flower

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

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Ideas, Literature, Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Evil

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

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.

Art, Animal, Mind

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

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Truth, Brave New World, Two

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

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

Science, Circles, Literature

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

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Movement, May, Ascent

Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Passion, Men, History

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

Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.

Damnation, Sitting, May

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

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Brave New World, Bombs, Anthrax

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

Alive

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

Drinking, Animal, Thinking

You May Also Like: