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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 16

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Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Results, Strain

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

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Architecture, Sin, Perceive

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

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Literature, Literary Devices, Devices

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

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.

Individual Differences, Liberty, Would Be

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

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Character, Fighting, Self

Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.111, Ivan R. Dee

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Men, Brain, Spiders

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Love, People, Violent

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

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

War, Stress, People

Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.78, Random House

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Philosophy, Believe, Belief

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

Pain, Order, Giving

Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

Evil, Unity, Separateness

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

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Men, Significant Things, House

Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

Sunset, Kissing, Generations

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Cutting, Murder Victims, Two

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.

Distance, Eye, Order

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

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

Determination, Bored, Majority

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

Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?

Winning, Thinking, Games

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Looks, Wells, Feels

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

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

War, Animal, Law

Aldous Huxley (1937). “An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism”, London : Chatto & Windus

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

Soul, World, Flesh

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

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

Christian, Mistake, Sacrifice

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

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

Life, Motivational, Self

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Knowledge, Virtue, Knows

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Life, Education, Philosophy

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

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.

Life, Purpose, Moments

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