Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Aldous Huxley cynicalintelligentmen Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. Aldous Huxley usemindway Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest? Aldous Huxley heroicinteresthero You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley atheistdogfear Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. Aldous Huxley unnaturalchastityreligion Words are good servants but bad masters. Aldous Huxley water-and-firepassionmasters To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley doganimalmen I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world-technologynastysaid We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. Aldous Huxley meaninglessnesscreationismmorality 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 politicalimportantcapacity 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 forgivenessselfmen On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Aldous Huxley brave-new-worldrollingguilt 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 paycultureworld Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny. Aldous Huxley patternsdestinychance What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world-johnbrave-new-worldmen 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 bad-daysimplelistening 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 democracypowerfulenemy We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. Aldous Huxley solitudefeelingshands Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. Aldous Huxley perceivearchitecturesin 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 alliterationassonancemind
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