Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously. Aldous Huxley illusionworld The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself. Aldous Huxley evilworldthinking Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful. Aldous Huxley cowsatheismanimal Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. Aldous Huxley ethicalindividualspiritual Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. Aldous Huxley gardennaturemen As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate. Aldous Huxley fatepoliticalhelping Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. Aldous Huxley businessinspirationalbelieve The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. Aldous Huxley innovationatheismfear The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Aldous Huxley worst-enemycommon-decencyliterature Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do. Aldous Huxley sublimeactionart Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God. Aldous Huxley namesmenjesus The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown. Aldous Huxley growing-updreammen To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley inspirationalcountrytravel Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions. Aldous Huxley hinduismcorephilosophy The flower of the present rosily blossomed. Aldous Huxley flower We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. Aldous Huxley treatscompassionlong It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's. Aldous Huxley preoccupationregardworld Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap. Aldous Huxley acceptanceblesseddirty ...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. Aldous Huxley futuregrowing-updream Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. Aldous Huxley educationlifethinking
