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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 27

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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Life, Routine, Natural

Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national

War, Mean, Race

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

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

Holiday, Reality, People

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

Children, Clever, Stupid

"Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 2, 1932.

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

Hygiene, Feet, Reputation

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

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Suffering, May, Individual

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

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

Hurt, Writing, Thinking

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

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

Desire, Rage

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Hyde, Human Nature, Poet

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

Civilization is sterilization.

Civilization, Sterilization

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

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.

Believe, Writing, Thinking

I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

Faith, Daughter, Exercise

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

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

Country, Nature, Class

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

The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

Self, Legs, Example

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Portraiture, Faces, Profile

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

From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.

Art, Mean, Reality

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

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

Thinking, Self, Mind

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

Order, Spheres, Economics

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

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

Music, Hymns, Swim

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

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Vanity, Care, Individual

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

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Ocean, Lakes, Ponds

"TIME" Magazine, December 1957.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Art, Way, Reason

"Island".

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

Remember, Moments, Doors Of Perception

Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.15, Harper Collins

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

Education, Book, Technology

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

Motivation, Men, Past

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

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