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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 8

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We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

Together, Doors Of Perception, Circumstances

Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Harper Collins

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

Real, Memorable, Omission

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

Dog, Years, Doubt

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Lying, Two, Relaxation

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Inspirational, Political, Gentleman

Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

Love, Soul, Principles

"The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell".

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

Mean, Pay, Attention

Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.13, Harper Collins

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

Quiet, Grows

Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile”

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Peace, Long, Hypocrisy

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

The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Morning, World, Lambs

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Inspirational, Business, Believe

Proper Studies (1927) "Note on Dogma"

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Real, World, Truth Is

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Fear, Innovation, Atheism

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

Men, Doe, Existence

1932 Texts and Pretexts, introduction.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Life, Running, Motivation

Aldous Huxley, Grover Cleveland Smith (1969). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

Powerful, Enemy, Democracy

Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

Artist, Significant, Form

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

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Art, Political, Pageantry

Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Cheating, Patriotic, Bully

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

Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure--chemically pure, I mean,... not morally.

Girl, Art, Real

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Learning, Saint, Sage

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.

Art, Philosophy, Self

Aldous Huxley (2012). “The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West”, p.2, Harper Collins

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

1925 Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Names, Ghost, Only Time

Aldous Huxley (1931). “The cicadas and other poems”

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Unhappy

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

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