Oneself Quotes by Aldous Huxley

8 Oneself quotes by Aldous Huxley

Huxley’s prose often drifts between the outer world and inner awareness. These eight lines give a concise taste of his thoughts on personal identity.

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“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to…

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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

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Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than…

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The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or…

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those…

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men…

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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

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