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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 21

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The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all

The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.

War, Learning, People

Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile”

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Blessed, Sleep, Blessing

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

Mystical Experiences, Opposites, Heaven

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

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

Grace, Doing Your Best, Ready

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

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.

Children, Philosophical, Ignorance

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

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Next, Literature, Prophet

1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

Atheism, Christianity, Accepted

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

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

Passion, Feelings, Madness

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

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

Country, Fear, Europe

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Believe, Writing, Wind

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

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

Art, Science, Intelligent

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

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

Nature, Flavor, May

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

Eye, Speech, Saws

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Philosophy, Political, Doubt

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

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

Men, Self, Hymns

Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

Anthony Astrachan, Aldous Huxley (1984). “Aldous Huxley's Brave New World”, p.22, Barron's Educational Series

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Freedom, Food, Optimistic

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

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Irrelevance, Altered

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

Pain was a fascinating horror

Pain, Horror, Fascinating

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

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Brave New World, Evil, Philosopher

"Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."

Behaviour, Ease, Matter

What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.

Past, Class, People

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

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

Hate, Reading, Dark

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

Home, Mind, Reassuring

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

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Kissing, Race, Squids

Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.19, Ivan R. Dee

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