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The artists who the world has...

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The only truly consistent are...

The only truly consistent are the dead.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I have discovered the most ex...

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Music is an ocean, but the re...

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I think we have to prepare th...

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I have spoken so far only of ...

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Work is prayer. Work is also ...

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

?"But that's the price we hav...

?"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Today we are faced, I think, ...

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I don't think there is any in...

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Seated upon the convex mound ...

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Our conviction that the world...

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

To those who think that liber...

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Under the present dispensatio...

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

If it were not for the intell...

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Reality, no matter how utopia...

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Wild inside; raging, writhing...

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Contemplation is that conditi...

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Faith, it is evident, may be ...

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

In any race between human num...

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

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