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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 20

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There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

Men, Kind

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

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

Art, Reality, Choices

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

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

Holiday, Reality, Brave New World

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

To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

Men, People, Profound

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

I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

Morning, Flower, Miracle

1954 The Doors of Perception.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Nature, Environment, Prosperity

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

To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.

Real, Philosophy, Mean

Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.

Girl, Home, Boys

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

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

Art, Character, Exercise

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

Love, Cold, Made

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

The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

Simple, Keys, Light

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

The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.

Art, Inspiration, White

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Passion, Want, Feels

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

Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe. Objects and events cease to be mere representations of classes and become their own uniqueness; cease to be illustrations of verbal abstractions and become fully concrete. Then you stop being in love, and the universe collapses, with an almost audible squeak of derision, into its normal insignificance.

Girl, Being In Love, Illustration

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

Math, Negative, Invention

Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

Europe, World, Results

"Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual". Book by Nicholas Murray, www.theguardian.com.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Book, Brave New World, Culture

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

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Travel, Heart, Cutting

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

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Hero, Son, Thinking

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

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Character, Mean, Fiction

Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.22, Harper Collins

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Food, Wine, Knives

"The collected works of Aldous Huxley".

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Good Morning, Truth, Men

Aldous Huxley (1943). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

Hell, Incapacity, Creatures

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

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

Christian, Buddhist, Attitude

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

Prayer, Long, Temptation

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