Aldous Huxley Quotes about Fear

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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

Aldous Huxley

Dog, Atheist, Fear

1932 Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

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

Aldous Huxley

Fear, Giving, Religion

"Island". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1962.

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.

Aldous Huxley

Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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.

Aldous Huxley

Fear, Liberty, Politics

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

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

Fear, History, Atheism

Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 31

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

Aldous Huxley

Country, Fear, Europe

Aldous Huxley Quotes about Fear

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