Aldous Huxley Quotes about Love

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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Technology, Thinking

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Failure, Math

Quoted in J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

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.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Soul, Principles

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

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.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Wise, Wisdom

1944 Time Must Have a Stop.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Emotional, Tears

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

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Aldous Huxley

Love, People, Violent

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

You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Mother, Children

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Cold, Made

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

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Children, Philosophy

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

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Indulge In, Degrees

Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.269, Random House

No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Dream, Song

Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.158, Ivan R. Dee

Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Reality, Discovery