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Religion Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to…
- Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor…
- In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events…
- 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…
- And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of…
- Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
- People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
- The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority…
- All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
- God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
- You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in…
- Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
- 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,…
- That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly…
- Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the…
- God: a gaseous vertebrate.
- In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
- How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who ever plays the geometer.
- 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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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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