Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 28

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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

Aldous Huxley

Children, Cat, Voice

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

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Aldous Huxley

Illustration, Events, Religion And Politics

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

Aldous Huxley

Philosophy, Passion, Reality

Aldous Huxley (2017). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals”, p.153, Routledge