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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 7

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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Insanity, Insane, Society

Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Peace, Would Be, Earth

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

Perfection, Infinite, Eternal

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Fear, Giving, Religion

"Island". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1962.

So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

Letting Go, Lying, Fall

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

People, Principles, Moral

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

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Running, Sacrifice, Idols

Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Religious, Spring, Idols

Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Unhappiness, Malice, Folly

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

50th Birthday, Age, Genius

Aldous Huxley (1924). “Young Archimedes: and other stories”, H. Doran

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

People, Brave New World Happiness, Suspicious

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

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Philosophy, Political, Doubt

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Fall, Brave New World, Giving

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

Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

Ignorance, Responsibility, Numbers

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

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.

Art, Sublime, Action

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Happiness, Struggle, Passion

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

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Nature, Men, Garden

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Peace, War, Men

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

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Death, Dying, Lasts

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Time Must Have a Stop”, p.181, Random House

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

Lying, Ignorance, Order

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

If you want to write, keep cats.

Writing, Cat, Want

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

Taste, Acquire

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

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

Cat, Men, Wife

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

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Religion, Chastity, Unnatural

Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 27

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Intuition, Language, Spite

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

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