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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 24

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Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

Children, Humanity, Adults

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Happiness, Brave New World, Destiny

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

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

Sex, Sleep, Cat

Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

Hurt, Thinking, Upset

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

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Brave New World, Alcohol, Soma

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today

Religious, Men, Political

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Work, Men, Feelings

Aldous Huxley (1956). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

Mind, Use, Unqualified

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

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

Dedicated, Analytics

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

Military, Animal, Perfect

Aldous Huxley (2009). “Point Counter Point”, p.108, Random House

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Perfectly Good, Bird, Mouths

Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.18, Harper Collins

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

Life, Fringe, Garments

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

Sex, Believe, People

aldous huxley (1928). “point counter point”

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

Thinking, Should Have, People

Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

Tired, Lust, Vices

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

People, Religion, Pins

Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics.

Thinking, Important, Way

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

Love, Humility, Heart

Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Writing, Novel, Sentiments

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

Vocabulary, Play, Study

Aldous Huxley (1940). “Words and their meanings”

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Men, Doubt, Secret

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

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Women, Eggs, Female

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Art, Dangerous, Brave New World Happiness

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

There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

Angel, Artist, Men

Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

Memories, Book, Snapshots

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

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