Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley
And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad.

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

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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. The degree to which this unitive knowledge is achieved here on earth determines the degree to which it will be enjoyed in the posthumous state. Contemplation of truth is the end, action the means.

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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.

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It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

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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.

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If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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

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

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

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Many Catholic mystics have affirmed that, at a certain stage of that contemplative prayer in which, according to the most authoritative theologians, the life of Christian perfection ultimately consists, it is necessary to put aside all thought of the Incarnation as distracting from the higher knowledge of that which has been incarnated. From this fact have arisen misunderstandings in plenty and a number of intellectual difficulties.

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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Ram it in, ram it in! Children's heads are hollow. Ram it in, ram it in! Still there's more to follow.

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Cheerfully... let us advance together, men of letters and men of science, further and further into the ever-expanding regions of the unknown.

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