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Aldous Huxley Quotes about Life

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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Life, Bullying, Race

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

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Life, Forgiveness, Time

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"

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".

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”

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

Life, Motivational, Self

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Life, Education, Philosophy

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

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.

Life, Purpose, Moments

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

Life, Wall, Ignorance

"The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley, www.theguardian.com. 1954.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

Life, Men, Propose

Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.19, Harper Collins

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Life, Beauty, God

Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

Life, Fringe, Garments

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

Life, Church, Compass

Aldous Huxley (2015). “The Devils of Loudun”, p.13, HarperCollins

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Life, Routine, Natural

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

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