“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. That’s one of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“That which, in the language of religion, is called “this world” is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. That’s one of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“An education for freedom (and for the love and intelligence which are at once the conditions and the results of freedom) must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born... — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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