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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 25

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It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

Years, Space, Tourists

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

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

Chance, Given, Humans

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

The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

Book, Artist, People

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

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Art, Wall, Doors

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

Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.

Trying, Lsd, Last Words

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Brave New World, Men, Law

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

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

Time, Race, Numbers

"Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 12 (p. 113), 1958.

Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

Book, Heart, Names

Aldous Huxley (1922). “Crome Yellow”

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

Two, World, Way

Aldous Huxley (1970). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Drinking, Beer, Worship

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

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Art, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

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

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

Dirty, Mouths, Soap

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

Training, Experience, Significant

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

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

Heaven, Experience, Visionaries

1956 Heaven and Hell.

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

Technology, Government, Ineptitude

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

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.

Flower, Blessed, Garden

Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.13, Harper Collins

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

Aunt, Grandfather, Special

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

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Art, Men, Europe

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

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Funny, Yoga, Health

"Complete Essays: 1920-1925".

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Next, Cleanliness

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

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

Sacrifice, Effort, Reform

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

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Funny, Positive, Happiness

1928 Point Counter Point, ch.30.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

Wine, Knives, Apples

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

Life, Church, Compass

Aldous Huxley (2015). “The Devils of Loudun”, p.13, HarperCollins

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

Art, Brave New World, People

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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