"The horror no less than the charm of……" — Aldous Huxley
"The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable"
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley has 533 quotes on this site.
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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others,…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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More Actualization Quotes
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
— Albert Camus
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Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to…
— Sidney Jourard
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at…
— Abraham Maslow
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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process…
— David Leonhardt
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It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love…
— Steve Almond
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.
— Brian Johnson
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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace…
— Dogen
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SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the…
— Jane Roberts
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To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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