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Religion Quotes by Aldous Huxley

62 Religion quotes by Aldous Huxley

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A man who takes the world for granted misses the joy of gratitude. Huxley also warns that worshiping beauty as a goddess, apart from morality, can turn into decay. He suggests that powerful, original minds often turn toward a solitary kind of religion, finding peace only when they accept quietness.

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“Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.”

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God: a gaseous vertebrate.

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Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.”

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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

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Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary…

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“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”

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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening…

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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as…

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“What’s lemonade? Something you make out of lemons. And what’s a crusade? Something you make out of crosses—a course of gratuitous violence…

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery…

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Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

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God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do…

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“The untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic,…

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“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,…

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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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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear…

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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest…

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“All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably…

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“[F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad -…

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“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. Faith is something very different from belief. Belief…

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“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be…

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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not…

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What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled…

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“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be…

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“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he…

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“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a…

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“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the…

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Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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“The spirit was a libertine, but the flesh and its affections were chaste.”

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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

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