Author of quotes: Aldous Huxley. Page 1

Pain terrifies people - and attracts.

Eternity was in our eyes and lips.

God is in the safe, and Ford is on the shelves.

Success turned Bernard's head like a fizzy, intoxicating drink and (like any good intoxicating drug) completely reconciled him with the order of things, previously so unjust. Now this world was good because it recognized Bernard's importance.

For an unaccustomed ear, the facts of the historical past for the most part sound like fiction.

It is impossible to assimilate science without understanding, without understanding the meaning.

Obscurity - I'm afraid of losing it. The authentic blossoms only in the dark. Like celery.

In normal times, no one in their right mind would agree that all people are equal.

You shouldn't become an adult without reading all of the children's books.

The pursuit of a single goal fits well with the behavior of cows and baboons; for an animal claiming to be related to Shakespeare, it is simply shameful.

For me, unhappiness is better than false, false happiness.

In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people is almost impossible to pay attention to anything but words and notions. Always have money on his doctoral thesis for obtaining a scientific hoax studies that for scientists is incredibly important problem: who influenced whom to cast what and when? Even in our age of technology the verbal Humanities are held in high esteem. Non-verbal Humanities, the arts direct awareness of these facts of our experience are almost completely ignored. Catalog, bibliography, a definitive edition of the ipsissima verba of third-rhymer, a huge pointer to eliminate all pointers - any genuinely Alexandrian project is sure to get the approval and financial support. But when it comes to the question, as you and I, our children and grandchildren become more receptive to learn more intensely aware of internal and external reality, to be more open towards the spirit is less prone to physical illness due to psychological abuse, more able to control their own autonomic nervous system - when it comes to any form of non-verbal education more deeply (and practically useful) Swedish gymnastics, no really respectable person no one really respected University or Church will not have this puzzled. Verbality leery of non-verbalist; rationalists fear the given, non-rational fact; the point of view of intellectuals: "what we perceive by the eye (or any other way) alien to us as such and should not impress us deeply." In addition, the issue of education in the field of nonverbal Humanities does not fall into any of the accepted cells. It is not a religion, not neurology, not gymnastics, not ethics or civics, not even experimental psychology. Therefore, from the point of view of academic and theological question does not exist and it can be easily ignored completely or with a patronising smile leave to those whom the Pharisees of verbal Orthodoxy call cranks, quacks, charlatans or unqualified Amateurs.

We should learn to ask with words; but at the same time, we must preserve and, if necessary, to develop your ability to see the world directly, not through this translucent medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact, turning it into all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.

Innumerable of those individuals who wish semitransparency and would like to find her in the Church. But alas, "the hungry flock looks up and unfed". They take part in rites, they listen to sermons, they repeat prayers; but their thirst remains unquenched. Frustrated, they turn to the bottle. At least for a while it somehow works. The Church can still be visited; but it is nothing more than the Musical Bank of Butler's "Egdon". God can still admit; but He is God only on the verbal level, only in strictly pikviksky sense. A valid object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state unchecked and belligerent euphoria which follows the consumption of the third cocktail.