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10/3/10

ALDOUS HUXLEY Quotes


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

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." ~Aldous Huxkey

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.” ~Aldous Huxley

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.” ~Aldous Huxley from Life Quotes

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

"Every fully developed religion exists simultaneously on several different levels. It exists as a set of abstract concepts about the world and its governance. It exists as a set of rites and sacraments, as a traditional method for manipulating the symbols, by means of which beliefs about the cosmic order are expressed. It exists as the feelings of love, fear and devotion evoked by this manipulation of symbols." ~Aldous Huxley

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."~ Aldous Huxley

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

"From pure sensation to the intuition of beauty, from pleasure and pain to love and the mystical ecstasy and death — all the things that are fundamental to the human spirit, are most profoundly significant, can only be experienced, not expressed." ~Aldous Huxley

"Happiness is a hard master–particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth." ~The Controller from BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

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

"In a different mode, or another plane of being, music is the equivalent of some of man’s most significant and most inexpressible experiences. By mysterious analogy it evokes in the mind of the listener, sometimes the phantom of these experiences, sometimes even the experiences themselves in their full force of life — it is a question of intensity; the phantom is dim, the reality, near and burning. Music may call up either; it is chance or providence which decides. The intermittences of the heart are subject to no known law." ~Aldous Huxley

"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

"Just be a little kinder." ~Aldous Huxley

“Life is short and information endless” ~Aldous Huxley

"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

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

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

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

"The deepest sin against   the human mind is to believe things without evidence." ~ALDOUS HUXLEY 

"The genius of life is to carry the spirit of childhood into old age." ~Aldous Huxley

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ~ Aldous Huxley
(Solitary Tree, Lincoln's Rock Sunset)

"The Purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that the other set of people are human. " ~Aldous Huxley 

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” ~Aldous Huxley

"There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors of perception." ~Aldous Huxley

“There is a certain blessedness lying at the heart of things, a mysterious blessedness.” ~Aldous Huxley

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

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." ~AldousHuxley

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