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Aldous Huxley Quotes

Aldous Huxley quotes about beauty

English Novelist, Writer July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963

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Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and people to understand the full beauty of words. Your mind is not a literary mind. Aldous Huxley
The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature denatured by the distorting spectacles of our appetites and revulsions. It is the finite divorced from the Eternal. It is multiplicity in isolation from its non-dual Ground. It is time apprehended as one damned thing after another. It is a system of verbal categories taking the place of the fathomlessly... Aldous Huxley
If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the... Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was..."
Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth..."
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. Aldous Huxley
One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. Aldous Huxley
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. Aldous Huxley
There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep and so beautiful in the midst of her curls, so touchingly childish with her pink toes and her grave sleeping face, so trustful in the helplessness of her limp hands and melted limbs, that the tears came to his eyes. Aldous Huxley
Dinted dimpled wimpled--his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and..."
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley

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