Aldous Huxley Quotes — Page 24

Novelist, Essayist

Philosophical

“To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.”

Judgment Wit Admission

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Philosophical

“Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.”

Feelings Passion Madness

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Funny

“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

Alcohol Brave New World

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Funny

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

Pleasure Modern

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Angry

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.”

Art Character Exercise

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Happy

“Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”

Funny Happiness Positive

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Philosophical

“The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! 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 Philosophy Zippers

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Philosophical

“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”

Men Brain Spiders

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Spiritual

“Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!”

Determination Majority Bored

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Rebellious

“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”

Dad Son Fathers Day

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Philosophical

“Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?”

Lasts Death Dying

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Philosophical

“The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .”

Lying Waiting Civilization

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