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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 15

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For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

Buddhism, Atheism, World

The only consistent people are the dead

People, Consistent

Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.

War, Hands, Two

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Love, Emotional, Tears

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

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Equality, Men, Literature

Proper Studies (1927) "The Idea of Equality"

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

Brave New World, Masters, Supreme

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

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Vision, Impossible, Kind

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

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book, Reading, Writing

Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 13

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Happiness, Happy, Boring

Limbo (1920) "Cynthia"

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Morality, Creationism, Meaninglessness

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

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Reading, Thinking, Self

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

Men, Years, Two

"The Shortcut: 20 Stories to Get You from Here to There". Book by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179, 2006.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Past, Done, Next

The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.

Religious, War, Buddhism

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

Bullying, Fun, Responsibility

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

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

Book, Fall, Reading

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

People, Battle, Would Be

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

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

Writing, Second Thoughts, My Thoughts

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

Health, Men, Use

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

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Happiness, Brave New World, Joy

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

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Journey, Long, Intellectual

Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

Brave New World, Men, Brave New World John

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

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Liberty, Population, Growing

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

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

Sex, Evil, Addiction

Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.358, Transaction Publishers

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

Book, Writing, Reality

"The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley".

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