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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 9

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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Love, Wise, Wisdom

1944 Time Must Have a Stop.

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

Meditation, Grace, Soul

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Country, War, Tyrants

Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

Gratitude, Thinking, Tongue

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Want, Menace, Stability

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

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Mind, Use, Way

Aldous Huxley (1940). “Words and their meanings”

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Truth, Literature, Platitudes

Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Moral Behavior, Numbers, Quality

Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

Memories, Son, Past

Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs (2013). “The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Dream, Way, Pragmatic

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Philosophy, Believe, People

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Dog, Animal, Men

Readers Digest, 1934.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

Communication, Humility, Reality

"The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley (p. 22-24), 1954.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

Time, Intuition, Duration

Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Intelligent, Men, Cynical

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

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Children, Curiosity, Vision

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

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Art, Philosophy, Simple

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

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

God, Sacrifice, Self

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Solemn, Cease

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

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Fear, Liberty, Politics

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

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Men, Vitality, Ethics

Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Philosophy, Distance, Home

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

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

World, Preoccupation, Regard

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

Philosophy, Hinduism, Core

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