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Aldous Huxley Quotes about Philosophy

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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Spiritual, Philosophy, Humanity

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Philosophy, Political, Doubt

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

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”

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”

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

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

Philosophy, Hinduism, Core

What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

Philosophy, Mean, People

Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.54, Random House

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Philosophy, Believe, Belief

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

Philosophy, Animal, Humanity

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

Art, Philosophy, Angel

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

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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

To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.

Real, Philosophy, Mean

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Philosophy, Political, Doubt

Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, 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.

Love, Children, Philosophy

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

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Philosophy, History, Firsts

The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! 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."

Philosophy, Believe, Zippers

"Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

Philosophy, Passion, Reality

Aldous Huxley (2017). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals”, p.153, Routledge

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