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Aldous Huxley Quotes

Aldous Huxley quotes about nature

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

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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these... Aldous Huxley
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Aldous Huxley
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. Aldous Huxley
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. Aldous Huxley
But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long..."
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder"
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder Aldous Huxley
Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for..."
Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail. Aldous Huxley

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