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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 6

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Memories, Men, Literature

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Men, Self, Earth

Introduction to "Bhagavad-Gita : The Song of God", translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, 1944.

The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

Men, Numbers, Humanity

Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.295, Ivan R. Dee

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

Voice, Sound, Persuasive

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

In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

Religious, Men, Unique

"Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 3 (p. 21), 1958.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

Progress, Industrialization, Assets

Aldous Huxley (1954). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

Monday, Life Is

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Reality, Rivers, Fiction

Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs (2013). “The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

Can you say something about nothing?

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

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

Inspirational, Strong, Soul And Body

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

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

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

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Life, Death, Nature

Do What You Will (1929) "Wordsworth in the Tropics"

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

War, People, Three

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Believe, People, Brave New World Character

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, (Ch. 17), 1932.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Squares, Social, Holes

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

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

Animal, Atheism, Cows

"Do What You Will". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1929.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Brave New World, Men, Talent

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

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Embarrassing, Kinder, Seems

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Book, Cooking, Special

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

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Inspirational, Life, Failure

Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 1

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Life, Education, Thinking

"Mortal Coils".

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

Sick, Civilisation

It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been.

Silly, Light, Knowing

Aldous Huxley (2012). “The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West”, p.14, Harper Collins

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Good Intentions, Hell, Intention

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

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

Love Is, Only Love, Knows

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