July 2010
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“The noise? But I’d have thought that would have kept you from thinking about...”
– Jacob’s Hands- Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood. (via chewyx)
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“Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in...”
– Chrome Yellow, Aldous Huxley (via kelwal)
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“(…)Como se nós acreditássemos em alguma coisa, seja o que for, por instinto!...”
– Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (via mymess)
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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will...”
– Aldous Huxley (via wechanged)
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whowasrimbaud:
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
Aldous Huxley
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Island (1962)
“Eating, drinking, dying—-three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don’t live it and, if ever they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he ...
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Brave New World Part 1
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“Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in the...”
– Island (1962)
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“Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation....”
– Island (1962)
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“A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.”
– Aldous Huxley (via iloveyoulessthanpunk)
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The Dialog: Huxley, Kennedy & Lewis (Between...
Kennedy: Where the hell are we?
Lewis: You must be a Catholic!
Kennedy: You could tell by the accent, eh?
Lewis: Yes. I say–aren’t you President Kennedy? How did you get here–wherever here is?
Kennedy: Ex-President, I think: I seem to have been assassinated. Who are you? And–to return to my first question–where the hell are we?
Lewis: I’m C. S. Lewis. I just died too, and I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about the location. This place just feels too good to be hell. On the other hand, I didn’t see any God, did you?
Kennedy: No.
Lewis: Then it can’t be heaven either. I wonder whether we’re stuck in limbo.
Kennedy: Ugh! Do you really think so?
Lewis: Actually, I think it is more likely that it’s purgatory, especially if we end up getting out of it and into heaven. I did a bit of speculating about such places as a writer, especially in The Great Divorce. I don’t suppose you’ve read it. No…well…But surely you should be familiar with such concepts if you were a Roman Catholic.
Kennedy: Well…I was more of a modern Catholic; I never bothered about transcendental mysteries or mythology. I was too busy trying to take care of the world I lived in for escapist thinking. « One world at a time » as Thoreau put it.
Lewis: You can see now that you were wrong, can’t you?
Kennedy: What do you mean?
Lewis: Why, first that it isn’t mythology. It’s real. Wherever we are, here we are, large as life. And second, that the rule isn’t « one world at a time. » Here we are in another world talking about our past life on earth. That’s two worlds at a time by my count. And while we were on earth, we could think about this world too; that’s also two worlds at a time, isn’t it? Finally, it’s not escapism. In fact, not to have prepared for this journey while we were living on earth would have been escapism. Don’t you agree?
Kennedy: Hmm…I suppose you’re right. But look! Someone is coming. Can you make out who it is?
Lewis: Why, it’s Huxley! Aldous Huxley. Aldous, welcome. How did you get here?
Huxley: Same way you did, I’m sure. I just died. Oh. I say! Kennedy and Lewis! What good company to die in–or live in, whatever you’re doing. Where is this place anyway?
Kennedy: That’s what we’re trying to figure out. Lewis thinks it may be some sort of limbo or purgatory. I’m just hoping it’s not hell.
Huxley: Well, you’re both wrong. It’s heaven. It must be heaven.
Kennedy: Why?
Huxley: Oh this is going to be fun! Lewis you’ve lost none of your cantankerous penchant for Socratic questioning, have you? I remember you made Oxford a regular hornets’ nest when you debated back on earth, and now you’ve shipped your hornets to heaven. This is a nice challenge.
Lewis: Then reply to it. If everywhere is heaven, then either hell does not exist, or hell is a part of heaven. Which way will you have it Aldous?
Kennedy: Wait, please! Before you two take off, could you please give me some assurances about this sort of debate? I was a debater too, but we politicians confined ourselves to the concrete and the tangible. I’m not all that convinced that you can do anything more than talk through your hat about things you’ve never seen.
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“That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to...”
– Aldous Huxley
(via shadesofrandomness)
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“Reprimido, o impulso transborda, e a inundação é sentimento; a inundação é...”
– Admirável Mundo Novo - Aldous Huxley (via kellynier)
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“… we should do well to consider much more seriously than we have hitherto been...”
– Dr. C. D. Broad, quoted in Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception (via listsanddiagrams)
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christiannealvarado:
Children’s rhyme in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley about soma:
Was and will make me ill
I take a gramme and only am
The Strokes about soma in the song Soma:
Soma is what they would take when hard times opened their eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrMPUlJxmt8
The meaning of soma in Greek is body and in Latin sleep
“Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable...”
– Aldous Huxley (7/15/2010) (via rachelmasu)
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“Whereas we have always chosen to adapt our economy and technology to human...”
– Island (1962)
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Ninth Philosopher's Song - Aldous Huxley
GOD’S in His Heaven: He never issues Jr. (Wise Man!) to visit this world of ours. Unchecked the cancer gnaws our tissues, Stops to lick chops and then again devours. Those find, who most delight to roam ‘Mid castles of remotest Spain, That there’s, thank Heaven, no place like home; So they set out upon their travels again. Beauty for some provides escape, Who gain a...
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“Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three...”
– Island (1962)
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“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight...”
– Aldous Huxley (via iloveyoulessthanpunk)
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The Cybernetic Society – Timothy Leary
ALDOUS HUXLEY: HERMANN HESSE
I, for one, first heard of Hermann Hesse from Aldous Huxley. In the fall of 1960, Huxley was Carnegie Visiting Professor at MIT. His assignment: to give a series of seven lectures on the subject « What a Piece of Work is Man. » About 2,000 people attended each lecture. Aldous spent most of his off-duty hours hanging around the Harvard Psychedelic Drug...
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“Este vazio que me contraria acaba formando uma presença”
– Admirável Mundo Novo, Aldous Huxley
(via kellynier)
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Aldous Huxley's Island - Page 141
“Do you like music?” Dr. Robert asked.
“More than most things.”
“And what, may I ask, does Mozart’s G-Minor Quintet refer to? Does it refer to Allah? Or Tao? Or the second person of the Trinity? Or the Atman-Brahman?”
Will laughed. “Let’s hope not.”
“But that doesn’t make the experience of the G-Minor Quintet any less ...
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“‘There are quiet places also in the mind’, he said meditatively. ‘But we build...”
– Aldous Huxley (via zenlikeme)
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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are...”
– !: can’t get enough A.H.!
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“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one...”
– Alive & Dirty
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“One Folk, One Realm, One Leader. Union with the unity of an insect swarm....”
– Island (1962)
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
evemarietou:
so, i’ve been reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, which was published in 1932 but takes place in a futuristic society & it’s pretty frightening how the lives led by the characters in this society are comparable to those lived by our generation today. while in the novel, very young children are encouraged to engage in erotic behavior, nowadays, children as young as...
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“Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a...”
– Aldous Huxley (via chickeninabiscuit)
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“Among the early Buddhists, the metaphysical theory was neither affirmed or...”
– Aldous Huxley
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Island (1962)
Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only know who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed...
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“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence...”
– Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author. (via Gravity)
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“Don’t look analytically. Don’t look as a scientist or even as a gardener....”
– Island (1962) 