The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience. Aldous Huxley data taken men The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours. Aldous Huxley believe sex people One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. Aldous Huxley philosophy believe people There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. Aldous Huxley substitutes talent virtue No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. Aldous Huxley heroic age war The only consistent people are the dead Aldous Huxley consistent people Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust Aldous Huxley tired vices lust It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well. Aldous Huxley tourists space years No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality. Aldous Huxley hymns self men In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead. Aldous Huxley finals discovery men Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground. Aldous Huxley earth self men Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant. Aldous Huxley tyrants majority practice We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. Aldous Huxley comedy tragedy looks The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines. Aldous Huxley humanity animal philosophy Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness. Aldous Huxley separateness unity evil Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied. Aldous Huxley evil The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking. Aldous Huxley facts people needs Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising. Aldous Huxley wells feels looks Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool. Aldous Huxley agony dying spiritual "All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." Aldous Huxley cancer pain long
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