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Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Aldous Huxley
Running, Sacrifice, Idols
Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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

Aldous Huxley
God, Sacrifice, Self
Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

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

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

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

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Aldous Huxley
Travel, Sacrifice, Vices
Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.

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

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

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

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