Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) Materialism and mentalism — the philosophies of “nothing but.” How wearily familiar we have become with that “nothing but space, time, matter and motion,” that “nothing but sex,” that “nothing but economics”! And the no less intolerant “nothing but spirit,” “nothing but consciousness,” “nothing but psychology” …
Aldous Huxley On Enlightenment
Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) To be enlightened is to be aware always of total reality in its emanate otherness. To beware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. To think and feel as a human being to resort whenever expedient to systematic reasoning. Our …
Aldous Huxley On Appetites Of The Soul
Aldous Huxley (July 26 1894 – November 22, 1963) That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with artificial paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives that at worst seem so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited, that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves …
Aldous Huxley On The Journey
Aldous Huxley July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) But the man who comes back through the door in the wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser, but less cocksure, happier but less self satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand …
