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Aldous Huxley Quotes

Aldous Huxley quotes about time

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

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Aldous Huxley quote: "My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have..."
My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow..."
Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep? Aldous Huxley
And while you were paying attention to these things, you were momentarily delivered from daydreams, from memories, from anticiaptions, from silly notions - from all the symptoms of you."Isn't tasting me?"..."I'd say it was halfway between me and not-me. Tasting is not-me doing something for the whole organism. And at the same time tasting is me being conscious of what's happening. And that's the point of our chewing-grace - to make the me more conscious of what the not-me is up to. Aldous Huxley
We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that we have raised ourselves above the brutes, to the level of human beings. But we can easily become the victims as well as the beneficiaries of these systems. We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which... Aldous Huxley
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. Aldous Huxley
It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary..."
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. Aldous Huxley
But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man- that it is an unnatural state- will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end Aldous Huxley
Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its..."
Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. Aldous Huxley
I fell,” he repeated for the hundredth time. “But you didn’t fall very far,” Mary Sarojini now said. “No, I didn’t fall very far,” he agreed. “So what’s all the fuss about?” the child inquired. Aldous Huxley
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley
Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might bedone in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds ofhours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt theprecious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible. Aldous Huxley

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