Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley gratitude thankful appreciation Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well. Aldous Huxley medical-science progress medicine The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self. Aldous Huxley ignorance journey spiritual A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable. Aldous Huxley real spiritual love-is An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley wisdom education witty 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 determine ends mean If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. Aldous Huxley different lonely loneliness Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley nature life death There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner. Aldous Huxley certain self people For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols Aldous Huxley religious idols spring All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Aldous Huxley fear giving religion To be a fool at the right time is also an art. Aldous Huxley fool right-time art If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb. Aldous Huxley failure math love This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act. Aldous Huxley want men thinking Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines? Aldous Huxley brave-new-world giving fall 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 meaningful country children Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. Aldous Huxley truth kings country To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style. Aldous Huxley appreciation men book My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. Aldous Huxley climbing nature father 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 inspiring inspirational years
