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Out Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up…
- The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of…
- Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out…
- Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things…
- To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not…
- Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
- Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all…
- If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out…
- Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to…
- In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with…
- A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
- Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of…
- This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.…
- The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will…
- The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
- Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am,…
- Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and…
- Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?…
- The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one…
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