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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 26

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Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Luxury, Reform, Indifference

Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Laughter, Pain, Emotional

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

Thinking, Conflict, Form

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

Brave New World, Safe, Shelves

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

Space, Watches, Answers

Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell”, p.23, Random House

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Writing, Effort, Unsuccessful

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Religion, Vertebrates

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Men, Years, Brave New World Happiness

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

Prayer, Work, Stink

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

...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

Fall, Home, Rocks

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

People, Looks, Satisfied

One of the great attractions of patriotism

Cheating, Patriotic, Bully

Aldous Huxley (2010). “Eyeless In Gaza”, p.185, Random House

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

Business, Writing, Mean

The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."

Philosophy, Believe, Zippers

"Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Technology, Yield, Medusa

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

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Art, Mean, Religion

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

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

Soul, Contemplation, Divine

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Solitude, Purpose, Excess

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

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

Sex, Alive, Poor

'Fifth Philosopher's Song' (1920)

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

Two, Feet, East

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

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.

Religious, Past, Thinking

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

Men, Thinking, Mind

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

Thinking, Temptation, Artistic

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

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Cities, Able, Life Is

Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

Book, Writing, Byron

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