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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 17

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An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

Self, Personality, Scales

Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.124, Ivan R. Dee

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

Self, World, Action

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Death, Ambition, Frustration

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

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Sacrifice, Men, Reflection

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

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

Self, Grace, Helping

Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith (2013). “The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment”, p.17, Harper Collins

Happiness is never grand.

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

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Civilization, Wickedness, Tone

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

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Good Work, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology

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

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Gun, Fire, Bangs

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Yoga, Health, Men

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

Self, Feelings, Outsiders

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

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

Romance, Energy, Monogamy

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.

Character, Men, Average

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

The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.

Taken, Men, Data

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Nasty, Being Myself, Brave New World Happiness

"All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence. "I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

Pain, Cancer, Long

"Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Travel, Sacrifice, Vices

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

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

Christian, Golden, Communist

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

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Writing, Cat, Novelists

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

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

Home, Men, Two Worlds

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

Life, Wall, Ignorance

"The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley, www.theguardian.com. 1954.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Civilization, Medicine, Choices

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

Oratory, Matter, Politician

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

Mind, Assonance, Alliteration

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Self, Affair, Moments

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