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Aldous Huxley Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Tagged: Friend, Friends, Friendship
“Chronic remorse is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Tagged: Remorse, Regret, Making Mistakes, Guilt, Morality, forgiveness, Forgiving Yourself
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
Tagged: fact, Ignorance, Truth
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.”
— Aldous Huxley, Island
Tagged: Life, Emotion, Trying, Grief, Pain, ENFP
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages.”
— Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell
Tagged: Language, Limit, Mind Valt, The Bureaucracy of Biology
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