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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 23

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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Literature, Three, Beastly

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Art, Mind, Beginners

Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Harper Collins

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Revolutionary, Consistent

Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

Busy, Factories, Nature Love

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

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

Heart, Men, Understanding

Aldous Huxley (1923). “Antic hay”, New York

A gramme is better than a damn.

Damn

Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

Children, Book, Fate

Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

Taste, Traveller, Written

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

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Music, Art, Composer

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

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

Art, People, Reason

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

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

Risk, Environment, Drink

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

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Brave New World, Punishment, Enemy

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

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Urbanization, Cities, Certain

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.

Death, Suicide, Unique

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Artist, Influence

Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.20, Harper Collins

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

Cures, Gloomy, Sentiments

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.

Sacrifice, Roots, Ties

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

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

Lying, Thinking, Heaven

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

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

Beautiful, Design, May

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.

Country, Names, Long

Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

Love, Reality, Discovery

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

Sky, Stills

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Country, Sea, Office

Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) p. 34

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

Beautiful, Brave New World, Bunk

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

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

Magic, Add, Literature

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

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