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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 18

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

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

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Real, Hipster, Brave New World

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

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

Interesting, Advertising, Modern

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

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Passion, Civilization, Settings

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

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

Animal, Reality, Goal

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

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Brave New World, Eight, Water

Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

The more stitches, the less riches.

Brave New World, Stitches, Riches

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

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

Cities, Joy, Los Angeles

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

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

Art, Truth, Past

Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.160, Random House

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

Cells, Body, May

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

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Character, Home, Men

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

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Soul, Captains, Fate And Destiny

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

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

Real, Two, Long

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Christian, Ideas, Perfect

Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

Philosophy, Animal, Humanity

The proper study of mankind is books.

Reading, Book, Study

Crome Yellow (1921) ch. 28

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

Morning, Men, Facts

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Evil, Necessary Evil, Chaos

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

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

Hands, Mind, Tails

Aldous Huxley (1971). “The collected poetry of Aldous Huxley”

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Fun, War, Yesterday

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

Wise, Angel, Vanity

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

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

Men, Thinking, Cases

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

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

Looks, Wonder, Divine

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

I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.

Believe, Mean, Profound

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Here I Am, Doubt, Ignorant

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

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