Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest? Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley A love of nature keeps no factories busy. Aldous Huxley nature-love factories busy 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 decay dying death The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything Aldous Huxley literary-devices devices literature Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. Aldous Huxley belief philosophy believe 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 design may beautiful 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 only-love knows love-is Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London. Aldous Huxley heaven lying thinking Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others. Aldous Huxley gratitude grateful men Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. Aldous Huxley fathers-day dad son Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine. Aldous Huxley time blood world The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. Aldous Huxley would-be evil men Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Aldous Huxley necessary-evil chaos evil A gramme is better than a damn. Aldous Huxley damn One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters. Aldous Huxley home character men Cleanliness is next to fordliness. Aldous Huxley cleanliness next Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. Aldous Huxley freedom spiritual men I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public. Aldous Huxley business writing mean A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Aldous Huxley frustration ambition death 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. Aldous Huxley love philosophy children Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. Aldous Huxley secret doubt men
