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World Quotes by Aldous Huxley

54 World quotes by Aldous Huxley

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Huxley reminds us that making the world better needs everyday work, not just dramatic sacrifices during crises. He points out that people often create theories about the world, yet they still lack the insight to truly understand it. He also asks whether we ever feel a hidden power inside us waiting for a chance to appear.

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“Brave new world”

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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

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When the individual feels, the community reels.

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“Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.”

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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

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This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the…

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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

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It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we…

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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory…

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The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great…

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The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the…

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A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in…

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For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or…

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Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance…

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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly…

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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the…

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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music,…

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The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world…

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The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several…

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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is…

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At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,…

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You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;…

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Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy…

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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and…

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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

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“In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.”

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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I…

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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

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The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another…

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It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which…

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And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.…

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The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in…

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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings,…

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Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and…

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“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.”

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that…

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my…

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

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,…

“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,…

“I’ll MAKE you be free whether you want to or not.’ -The Savage”

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

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…

“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…

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

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

“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain…

“Quote of the day:Quote of the day: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be…