Re: RE: Huxley Quotes

[Rob Kall <fh@futurehealth.org>]

It's  been fun  pulling together these nuggets.

Rob Kall
http://www.futurehealth.org/quotatio.htm


The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
        Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only
thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley


> +  "Religion is, among many
> other things, a system of education, by means of which human beings may
> train themselves, first to make desirable changes in their own
> personalities and, at one remove, in society, and, in the second place,
> to heighten consciousness and so establish more adequate relations
> between themselves".  
> Aldous Huxley, the English novelist (1894 - 1963) :

I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion
to it is a bad thing. 
Interview with J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind, London, 1934.
Huxley, Aldous

Huxley, Aldous
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For
the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was
incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable
things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
Interview with J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind, London, 1934. 
Huxley, Aldous
...[he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would
have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated
spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhapsfor the engine
would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case
have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and
blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the
discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new
toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.
Young Archimedes. 


Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895)
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is
so obvious that they are called self evident, and the rest of his work
consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at
any rate as ordinarily practised, is of the same general nature authority
and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

"Scientific Education -Notes of an After-dinner Speech."
Macmillan's Magazine Vol XX, 1869. 
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895)
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." 
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) 

Try to learn something about
everything and everything about something.
 T.H. Huxley 

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in
all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into
the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try
to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in
vain. 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. We can pool information about experiences, but never the
experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a
society of island universes.Huxley, Aldous, The doors of perception.
London (Triad Grafton) 1977, 11-12

In life, man proposes, God disposes.
Huxley, Aldous, The doors of perception. London (Triad Grafton) 1977,
27

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient
means
for going backwards.

        

        

--
Aldous Huxley

"My father considered a walk
among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing." (Aldous
Huxley)

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures
early in life. 
T. H. HUXLEY

HUXLEY, ALDOUS
I can sympathize with people's pains but not with their pleasures. There
is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Huxley, Aldous

PATRONS, GRANTS, FOUNDATIONS
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-- in solid cash-- the
tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with
their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Aldous Huxley

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley

Success-- "the bitch goddess success," in william James'
phrase-- demands strange sacrifices from those who worship her.
Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies, 318

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
--Thomas Huxley

ACHIEVMENT
My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not
to try to make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas H. Huxley, 1860

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley

Happiness is the sense of having worked according to one's
capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams.
T. H. HUXLEY

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make
yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether
you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and
however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson
that he learns thoroughly. 
T. H. HUXLEY

Each man's memory is his private literature. 
ALDOUS HUXLEY

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of
mankind, is wisdom. 
T. H. HUXLEY

PATRONS, GRANTS, FOUNDATIONS
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-- in solid cash-- the
tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with
their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Aldous Huxley