Aldous Huxley

1:He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words. ~ Aldous Huxley,

2:The smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. ~ Aldous Huxley,

3:The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
~ Aldous Huxley,

4:According to Aldous Huxley, some of the books on his shelves glowed with a special energy or living power. They were alive, and they were beautiful. ~ Jeffrey J Kripal,

5:Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education. ~ Aldous Huxley,

6:The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes. ~ Aldous Huxley,

7:Jordan Peterson's Book List
1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Road To Wigan Pier - George Orwell
4. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Beyond Good And Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Ordinary Men - Christopher Browning
8. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
9. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul - Carl Jung
13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B. Peterson
14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) - Mircea Eliade
15. Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp ~ Jordan Peterson,

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50 Spiritual Classics: List of Books Covered:
Muhammad Asad - The Road To Mecca (1954)
St Augustine - Confessions (400)
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Black Elk Black - Elk Speaks (1932)
Richard Maurice Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness (1901)
Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics (1976)
Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
GK Chesterton - St Francis of Assisi (1922)
Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You (2001)
Chuang Tzu - The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century BCE)
Ram Dass - Be Here Now (1971)
Epictetus - Enchiridion (1st century)
Mohandas Gandhi - An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927)
Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness (1097)
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (1923)
GI Gurdjieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men (1960)
Dag Hammarskjold - Markings (1963)
Abraham Joshua Heschel - The Sabbath (1951)
Hermann Hesse - Siddartha (1922)
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (1954)
William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955)
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
J Krishnamurti - Think On These Things (1964)
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
Daniel C Matt - The Essential Kabbalah (1994)
Dan Millman - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1989)
W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge (1944)
Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975)
Michael Newton - Journey of Souls (1994)
John O'Donohue - Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1998)
Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (1994)
Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements (1997)
Helen Schucman & William Thetford - A Course in Miracles (1976)
Idries Shah - The Way of the Sufi (1968)
Starhawk - The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979)
Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970)
Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven and Hell (1758)
Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle (1570)
Mother Teresa - A Simple Path (1994)
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (1998)
Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973)
Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God (1998)
Rick Warren - The Purpose-Driven Life (2002)
Simone Weil - Waiting For God (1979)
Ken Wilber - A Theory of Everything (2000)
Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (1974)
Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1990)
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Spirital Classics (2017 Edition),

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1:Dream in a pragmatic way. ~ Aldous Huxley

2:Happiness is never grand. ~ Aldous Huxley

3:God: a gaseous vertebrate. ~ Aldous Huxley

4:I am I, and I wish I weren't. ~ Aldous Huxley

5:Pain was a fascinating horror ~ Aldous Huxley

6:Civilization is sterilization. ~ Aldous Huxley

7:Ending is better than mending. ~ Aldous Huxley

8:A gramme is better than a damn. ~ Aldous Huxley

9:If you want to write, keep cats. ~ Aldous Huxley

10:Let us be kinder to one another. ~ Aldous Huxley

11:Cleanliness is next to fordliness. ~ Aldous Huxley

12:Everyone belongs to everyone else. ~ Aldous Huxley

13:The more stitches, the less riches. ~ Aldous Huxley

14:The more you know, the more you see ~ Aldous Huxley

15:Can you say something about nothing? ~ Aldous Huxley

16:In life, man proposes, God disposes. ~ Aldous Huxley

17:I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. ~ Aldous Huxley

18:The proper study of mankind is books. ~ Aldous Huxley

19:Every ceiling reached becomes a floor. ~ Aldous Huxley

20:Experience teaches only the teachable. ~ Aldous Huxley

21:If you don't gamble, you'll never win. ~ Aldous Huxley

22:I like being myself. Myself and nasty. ~ Aldous Huxley

23:But every one belongs to every one else ~ Aldous Huxley

24:The only consistent people are the dead ~ Aldous Huxley

25:The only truly consistent are the dead. ~ Aldous Huxley

26:An irrelevance, and your life's altered. ~ Aldous Huxley

27:God in the safe and Ford on the shelves. ~ Aldous Huxley

28:Liberties are not given, they are taken. ~ Aldous Huxley

29:Words are good servants but bad masters. ~ Aldous Huxley

30:A love of nature keeps no factories busy. ~ Aldous Huxley

31:To be excited is still to be unsatisfied. ~ Aldous Huxley

32:We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ~ Aldous Huxley

33:Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. ~ Aldous Huxley

34:One of the great attractions of patriotism ~ Aldous Huxley

35:When the sun rises, it rises for everyone. ~ Aldous Huxley

36:A man can smile and smile and be a villain. ~ Aldous Huxley

37:Nothing short of everything will really do. ~ Aldous Huxley

38:The flower of the present rosily blossomed. ~ Aldous Huxley

39:One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~ Aldous Huxley

40:Every man's memory is his private literature. ~ Aldous Huxley

41:If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. ~ Aldous Huxley

42:Only times and places, only names and ghosts. ~ Aldous Huxley

43:Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so. ~ Aldous Huxley

44:The silent bear no witness against themselves. ~ Aldous Huxley

45:To be a fool at the right time is also an art. ~ Aldous Huxley

46:I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick. ~ Aldous Huxley

47:Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. ~ Aldous Huxley

48:When the individual feels, the community reels. ~ Aldous Huxley

49:Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. ~ Aldous Huxley

50:No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment. ~ Aldous Huxley

51:No social stability without individual stability. ~ Aldous Huxley

52:One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments. ~ Aldous Huxley

53:We can't allow science to undo its own good work. ~ Aldous Huxley

54:Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London. ~ Aldous Huxley

55:Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~ Aldous Huxley

56:The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable. ~ Aldous Huxley

57:The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories. ~ Aldous Huxley

58:He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words. ~ Aldous Huxley,

59:It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ~ Aldous Huxley

60:Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry ~ Aldous Huxley

61:Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ~ Aldous Huxley

62:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~ Aldous Huxley

63:Aldous Huxley: “Liberties are not given, they are taken. ~ Howard Zinn

64:I like being myself. Myself and nasty. —Aldous Huxley ~ Sophia Amoruso

65:Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few. ~ Aldous Huxley

66:... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. ~ Aldous Huxley

67:We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ~ Aldous Huxley

68:An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. ~ Aldous Huxley

69:In real life there is no such person as the average man. ~ Aldous Huxley

70:What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. ~ Aldous Huxley

71:Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. ~ Aldous Huxley

72:But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably. ~ Aldous Huxley

73:Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest? ~ Aldous Huxley

74:Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma. ~ Aldous Huxley

75:Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. ~ Aldous Huxley

76:You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~ Aldous Huxley

77:Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. ~ Aldous Huxley

78:Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body. ~ Aldous Huxley

79:By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay. ~ Aldous Huxley

80:Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers. ~ Aldous Huxley

81:Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces. ~ Aldous Huxley

82:Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising. ~ Aldous Huxley

83:Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. ~ Aldous Huxley

84:Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer. ~ Aldous Huxley

85:Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species. ~ Aldous Huxley

86:We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. ~ Aldous Huxley

87:Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. ~ Aldous Huxley

88:Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation. ~ Aldous Huxley

89:Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. ~ Aldous Huxley

90:Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa ~ Zygmunt Bauman

91:Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. ~ Aldous Huxley

92:The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies. ~ Aldous Huxley

93:The social body persists although the component cells may change. ~ Aldous Huxley

94:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. —Aldous Huxley ~ Melanie Joy

95:Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley

96:How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice! ~ Aldous Huxley

97:I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly. ~ Aldous Huxley

98:Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. ~ Aldous Huxley

99:Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ~ Aldous Huxley

100:The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. ~ Aldous Huxley

101:Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! ~ Aldous Huxley

102:Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ~ Aldous Huxley

103:[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. ~ Aldous Huxley

104:I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell. ~ Aldous Huxley

105:There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men. ~ Aldous Huxley

106:There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley

107:life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything ~ Aldous Huxley

108:Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ~ Aldous Huxley

109:One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. ~ Aldous Huxley

110:Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be ~ Aldous Huxley

111:To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. ~ Aldous Huxley

112:All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. ~ Aldous Huxley

113:The smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. ~ Aldous Huxley,

114:Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly. ~ Aldous Huxley

115:To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~ Aldous Huxley

116:All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. ~ Aldous Huxley

117:Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. ~ Aldous Huxley

118:Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. ~ Aldous Huxley

119:Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. ~ Aldous Huxley

120:Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions. ~ Aldous Huxley

121:Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ~ Aldous Huxley

122:Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. ~ Aldous Huxley

123:The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously. ~ Aldous Huxley

124:A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. ~ Aldous Huxley

125:Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. ~ Aldous Huxley

126:Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity ~ Aldous Huxley

127:I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts. ~ Aldous Huxley

128:The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature. ~ Aldous Huxley

129:Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy. ~ Aldous Huxley

130:Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. ~ Aldous Huxley

131:People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. ~ Aldous Huxley

132:To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ~ Aldous Huxley

133:Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. ~ Aldous Huxley

134:Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. ~ Aldous Huxley

135:Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are. ~ Aldous Huxley

136:The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" ~ Aldous Huxley

137:We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. ~ Aldous Huxley

138:When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them. ~ Aldous Huxley

139:The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking. ~ Aldous Huxley

140:Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. ~ Aldous Huxley

141:Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine. ~ Aldous Huxley

142:In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. ~ Aldous Huxley

143:There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation. ~ Aldous Huxley

144:No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. ~ Aldous Huxley

145:People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. ~ Aldous Huxley

146:The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. ~ Aldous Huxley

147:To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. ~ Aldous Huxley

148:Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness. ~ Aldous Huxley

149:Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. ~ Aldous Huxley

150:Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. ~ Aldous Huxley

151:In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know. ~ Aldous Huxley

152:In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. ~ Aldous Huxley

153:Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing. ~ Aldous Huxley

154:Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted. ~ Aldous Huxley

155:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored,’ said writer Aldous Huxley. ~ Rolf Dobelli

156:Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still. ~ Aldous Huxley

157:There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ~ Aldous Huxley

158:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

159:Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ~ Aldous Huxley

160:Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. ~ Aldous Huxley

161:Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~ Aldous Huxley

162:My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~ Aldous Huxley

163:Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. ~ Aldous Huxley

164:Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable. ~ Aldous Huxley

165:The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything ~ Aldous Huxley

166:Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction ~ Aldous Huxley

167:All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. ~ Aldous Huxley

168:Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. ~ Aldous Huxley

169:Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. ~ Aldous Huxley

170:All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. ~ Aldous Huxley

171:An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ~ Aldous Huxley

172:At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men. ~ Aldous Huxley

173:Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ~ Aldous Huxley

174:I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley. ~ Albert Hofmann

175:"All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." ~ Aldous Huxley

176:De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. ~ Aldous Huxley

177:Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. ~ Aldous Huxley

178:I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. ~ Aldous Huxley

179:In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. ~ Aldous Huxley

180:Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages. ~ Aldous Huxley

181:When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons. ~ Aldous Huxley

182:Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better ~ Aldous Huxley

183:I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. ~ Aldous Huxley

184:Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well. ~ Aldous Huxley

185:The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. ~ Aldous Huxley

186:Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ~ Aldous Huxley

187:The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be. ~ Aldous Huxley

188:Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ~ Aldous Huxley

189:Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ~ Aldous Huxley

190:Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. ~ Aldous Huxley

191:Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. ~ Aldous Huxley

192:he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular ~ Aldous Huxley

193:I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. ~ Aldous Huxley

194:Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it. ~ Aldous Huxley

195:The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms. ~ Aldous Huxley

196:Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied. ~ Aldous Huxley

197:The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ~ Aldous Huxley

198:Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. ~ Aldous Huxley

199:Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. ~ Aldous Huxley

200:People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. ~ Aldous Huxley

201:People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! ~ Aldous Huxley

202:Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ~ Aldous Huxley

203:In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. ~ Aldous Huxley

204:In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. ~ Aldous Huxley

205:Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. ~ Aldous Huxley

206:Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~ Aldous Huxley

207:They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are. Aldous Huxley ~ Michael E Gerber

208:Aldous Huxley put it, “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~ Ruchir Sharma

209:Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive. ~ Aldous Huxley

210:Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. ~ Aldous Huxley

211:The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ~ Aldous Huxley

212:Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as. ~ Aldous Huxley

213:...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. ~ Aldous Huxley

214:People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. ~ Aldous Huxley

215:The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment. ~ Aldous Huxley

216:...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. ~ Aldous Huxley

217:In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months. ~ Aldous Huxley

218:What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? ~ Aldous Huxley

219:You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. ~ Aldous Huxley

220:Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. ~ Aldous Huxley

221:Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. ~ Aldous Huxley

222:Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy. ~ Aldous Huxley

223:Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. ~ Aldous Huxley

224:The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ~ Aldous Huxley

225:The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. ~ Aldous Huxley

226:Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. ~ Aldous Huxley

227:An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. ~ Aldous Huxley

228:Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. ~ Aldous Huxley

229:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29 ~ Misty Griffin

230:Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. ~ Aldous Huxley

231:The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. ~ Aldous Huxley

232:which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one? ~ Aldous Huxley

233:Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ~ Aldous Huxley

234:Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. ~ Aldous Huxley

235:Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. ~ Aldous Huxley

236:Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. ~ Aldous Huxley

237:...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters. ~ Aldous Huxley

238:It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder. ~ Aldous Huxley

239:On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. ~ Aldous Huxley

240:There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ~ Aldous Huxley

241:Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. ~ Aldous Huxley

242:Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ~ Aldous Huxley

243:Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics". ~ Aldous Huxley

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

245:It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. ~ Aldous Huxley

246:Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. ~ Aldous Huxley

247:Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from. ~ Aldous Huxley

248:The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
~ Aldous Huxley,

249:There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. ~ Aldous Huxley

250:War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. ~ Aldous Huxley

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

252:Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. ~ Aldous Huxley

253:The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. ~ Aldous Huxley

254:A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ~ Aldous Huxley

255:It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. ~ Aldous Huxley

256:Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. ~ Aldous Huxley

257:Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. ~ Aldous Huxley

258:Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. ~ Aldous Huxley

259:Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization. ~ Aldous Huxley

260:Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. ~ Aldous Huxley

261:If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were. ~ Aldous Huxley

262:People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. ~ Aldous Huxley

263:The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. ~ Aldous Huxley

264:Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” —ALDOUS HUXLEY ~ Anthony Robbins

265:I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. ~ Aldous Huxley

266:Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. ~ Aldous Huxley

267:What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within! ~ Aldous Huxley

268:The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ~ Aldous Huxley

269:The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline toward the religion of solitude. –Aldous Huxley ~ Ella James

270:Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. ~ Aldous Huxley

271:I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example. ~ Aldous Huxley

272:Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~ Aldous Huxley

273:You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. ~ Aldous Huxley

274:A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ~ Aldous Huxley

275:When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. ~ Aldous Huxley

276:Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. ~ Aldous Huxley

277:Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right ~ Aldous Huxley

278:If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights? ~ Aldous Huxley

279:Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ~ Aldous Huxley

280:There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self. —ALDOUS HUXLEY ~ Wayne W Dyer

281:The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. ~ Aldous Huxley

282:A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. ~ Aldous Huxley

283:L’expérience, ce n’est pas ce qui arrive à un homme, c’est ce qu’un homme fait avec ce qui lui arrive. Aldous HUXLEY ~ Anonymous

284:So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. ~ Aldous Huxley

285:That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ~ Aldous Huxley

286:The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms. ~ Aldous Huxley

287:They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though ~ Aldous Huxley

288:We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge ~ Aldous Huxley

289:A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. ~ Aldous Huxley

290:I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. ~ Aldous Huxley

291:Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ~ Aldous Huxley

292:The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. ~ Aldous Huxley

293:We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves. ~ Aldous Huxley

294:If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ~ Aldous Huxley

295:The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” – Aldous Huxley ~ Aletheia Luna

296:an old attitude quote by Aldous Huxley, “It’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

297:Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born. ~ Aldous Huxley

298:That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ~ Aldous Huxley

299:Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. ~ Aldous Huxley

300:Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. ~ Aldous Huxley

301:It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. ~ Aldous Huxley

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

303:These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves. ~ Aldous Huxley

304:But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. ~ Aldous Huxley

305:The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable ~ Aldous Huxley

306:Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. ~ Aldous Huxley

307:There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. ~ Aldous Huxley

308:We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. ~ Aldous Huxley

309:What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. ~ Aldous Huxley

310:Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. ~ Aldous Huxley

311:And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs. ~ Aldous Huxley

312:At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge? ~ Aldous Huxley

313:For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera. ~ Aldous Huxley

314:The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. ~ Aldous Huxley

315:Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. ~ Aldous Huxley

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

317:Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ~ Aldous Huxley

318:A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. ~ Aldous Huxley

319:For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written. ~ Aldous Huxley

320:The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ~ Aldous Huxley

321:If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. ~ Aldous Huxley

322:If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. ~ Aldous Huxley

323:Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. ~ Aldous Huxley

324:There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.” ~ J J McAvoy Aldous Huxley ~ J J McAvoy

325:Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~ Aldous Huxley

326:If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. ~ Aldous Huxley

327:The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature? ~ Aldous Huxley

328:The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next. ~ Aldous Huxley

329:Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems. ~ Aldous Huxley

330:Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you. ~ Aldous Huxley

331:But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. ~ Aldous Huxley

332:If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. ~ Aldous Huxley

333:This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. ~ Aldous Huxley

334:I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write. ~ Aldous Huxley

335:It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. ~ Aldous Huxley

336:Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment ~ Aldous Huxley

337:Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. ~ Aldous Huxley

338:Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. ~ Aldous Huxley

339:Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century? ~ Aldous Huxley

340:Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! ~ Aldous Huxley

341:Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ~ Aldous Huxley

342:Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. ~ Aldous Huxley

343:But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind. ~ Aldous Huxley

344:For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. ~ Aldous Huxley

345:Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable. ~ Aldous Huxley

346:Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. ~ Aldous Huxley

347:The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. ~ Aldous Huxley

348:The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude. ~ Aldous Huxley

349:We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way. ~ Aldous Huxley

350:I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe. ~ Aldous Huxley

351:I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world. ~ Aldous Huxley

352:In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. ~ Aldous Huxley

353:I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both. ~ Aldous Huxley

354:The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes ~ Aldous Huxley

355:To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. ~ Aldous Huxley

356:What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ~ Aldous Huxley

357:The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ~ Aldous Huxley

358:The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more. ~ Aldous Huxley

359:...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind. ~ Aldous Huxley

360:Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. ~ Aldous Huxley

361:Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures. ~ Aldous Huxley

362:Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. ~ Aldous Huxley

363:Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ~ Aldous Huxley

364:It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop) ~ Aldous Huxley

365: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

366: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

367:Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be ~ Aldous Huxley

368:Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers. ~ Aldous Huxley

369:That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. ~ Aldous Huxley

370:And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else ~ Aldous Huxley

371:The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. ~ Aldous Huxley

372:Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. ~ Aldous Huxley

373:No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. ~ Aldous Huxley

374:The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing. ~ Aldous Huxley

375:Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit. ~ Aldous Huxley

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

377:Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future. ~ Aldous Huxley

378:Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. ~ Aldous Huxley

379:Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa. ~ Aldous Huxley

380:I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive. ~ Aldous Huxley

381:Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. ~ Aldous Huxley

382:It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other. ~ Aldous Huxley

383:It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. ~ Aldous Huxley

384:No obstante, los Noailles me escribieron para preguntarme si no podría encontrar algún trabajo interesante para Aldous Huxley. ¡Deliciosa ingenuidad! ~ Luis Bu uel

385:The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. ~ Aldous Huxley

386:Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall. ~ Aldous Huxley

387:Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful. ~ Aldous Huxley

388:The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ~ Aldous Huxley

389:Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground. ~ Aldous Huxley

390:The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. ~ Aldous Huxley

391:It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled. ~ Aldous Huxley

392:On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life’s learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: “Let us be kinder to one another. ~ Robin S Sharma

393:According to Aldous Huxley, some of the books on his shelves glowed with a special energy or living power. They were alive, and they were beautiful. ~ Jeffrey J Kripal,

394:Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. ~ Aldous Huxley

395:Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. ~ Aldous Huxley

396:In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap. ~ Aldous Huxley

397:One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time. ~ Aldous Huxley

398:We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters. ~ Aldous Huxley

399:A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind. ~ Aldous Huxley

400:Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology. ~ Aldous Huxley

401:I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self. ~ Aldous Huxley

402:It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness. ~ Ram Dass

403:The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men. ~ Aldous Huxley

404:The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own. ~ Aldous Huxley

405:Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now. ~ Aldous Huxley

406:What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. ~ Aldous Huxley

407:When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering. ~ Aldous Huxley

408:You know I just dispatched copies to Aldous Huxley & Ezra Pound—finally heard from them. And to Blaise Cendrars.‡ Also wrote a good letter to Emma Goldman. ~ Ana s Nin

409:Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid. ~ Aldous Huxley

410:Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. ~ Aldous Huxley

411:Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy. ~ Aldous Huxley

412:Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols. ~ Aldous Huxley

413:One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy. ~ Aldous Huxley

414:If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion. ~ Aldous Huxley

415:The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is. ~ Aldous Huxley

416:If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~ Aldous Huxley

417:Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life. ~ Aldous Huxley

418:To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human. ~ Aldous Huxley

419:‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. ~ Aldous Huxley

420:Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. ~ Aldous Huxley

421:Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds? ~ Aldous Huxley

422:Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. ~ Aldous Huxley

423:Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books. ~ Aldous Huxley

424:To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations. ~ Aldous Huxley

425: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

426: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

427: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. ~ Aldous Huxley

428:Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics. ~ Aldous Huxley

429:From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ~ Aldous Huxley

430:The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac. ~ Aldous Huxley

431:The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ~ Aldous Huxley

432:BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay ~ Tom Nissley

433:Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking. ~ Aldous Huxley

434:I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate. ~ Aldous Huxley

435:Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead. ~ Aldous Huxley

436:Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. ~ Aldous Huxley

437:My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. ~ Aldous Huxley

438:The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours. ~ Aldous Huxley

439: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

440:Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit. ~ Aldous Huxley

441:Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron! ~ Aldous Huxley

442:Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust ~ Aldous Huxley

443:If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe. ~ Aldous Huxley

444:One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. ~ Aldous Huxley

445:Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~ Aldous Huxley

446:Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair. ~ Aldous Huxley

447:I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven. ~ Aldous Huxley

448:The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. ~ Aldous Huxley

449:In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead. ~ Aldous Huxley

450:I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence. ~ Aldous Huxley

451:Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. ~ Aldous Huxley

452:Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool. ~ Aldous Huxley

453:Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation. ~ Aldous Huxley

454:Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows. ~ Aldous Huxley

455:Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. ~ Aldous Huxley

456:Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. ~ Aldous Huxley

457:Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words. ~ Aldous Huxley

458:God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley

459:Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too. ~ Aldous Huxley

460:No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality. ~ Aldous Huxley

461: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. ~ Aldous Huxley

462:As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod. ~ Mei Fong

463:In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation. ~ Aldous Huxley

464:Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations. ~ Aldous Huxley

465:Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism. ~ Aldous Huxley

466:Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. ~ Aldous Huxley

467: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

468:As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries. ~ Aldous Huxley

469:Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training. ~ Aldous Huxley

470:The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes. ~ Aldous Huxley

471: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. ~ Aldous Huxley

472:A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with. ~ Aldous Huxley

473:It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' ~ Aldous Huxley

474: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

475:The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . ~ Aldous Huxley

476:All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time ~ Aldous Huxley

477:God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this. ~ Eric Weiner

478:I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method. ~ Aldous Huxley

479:I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley. ~ Albert Hofmann

480:Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? ~ Aldous Huxley

481:Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? ~ Aldous Huxley

482: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

483:Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner. ~ Aldous Huxley

484:"But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it." ~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World ch. 17 [2]

485:The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him. ~ Aldous Huxley

486:It’s a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and to find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than “Try to be a little kinder.” —ALDOUS HUXLEY ~ Anonymous

487:The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy. ~ Aldous Huxley

488:After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. ~ Aldous Huxley

489:For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. ~ Aldous Huxley

490:I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock. ~ Aldous Huxley

491:Aldous Huxley, a British novelist born in the late 1800s, said, “The Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd

492:The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. ~ Aldous Huxley

493:All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook. ~ Aldous Huxley

494:And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. ~ Aldous Huxley

495:I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it. ~ Aldous Huxley

496:It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. ~ Aldous Huxley

497:My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism . ~ Aldous Huxley

498:Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. ~ Aldous Huxley

499:All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it. ~ Aldous Huxley

500:Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation. ~ Aldous Huxley

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