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Crome Yellow QUOTES

Crome Yellow QUOTES

1 " It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

2 " Like every other good thing in this
world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,
it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us be
duly thankful for that, my dear Denis--duly thankful. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

3 " There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life— a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

4 " As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

5 " We men of intelligence will learn to harness the insanities of reason. We can't leave the world any longer to the direction of chance. We can't allow dangerous maniacs like Luther, mad about dogma, like Napoleon, mad about himself, to go on casually appearing and turning everything upside down. In the past it didn't so much matter; but our modern machine is too delicate. A few more knocks like the Great War, another Luther or two, and the whole concern will go to pieces. In future, the men of reason must see that the madness of the world's maniacs is canalised into proper channels, is made to do useful work, like a mountain torrent driving a dynamo... "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

6 " Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

7 " One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy? "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

8 " Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

9 " He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

10 " In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

11 " He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

12 " That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

13 " The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

14 " All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

15 " ... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

16 " When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

17 " Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

18 " The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature? "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

19 " Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow

20 " No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about it comfortably and decorously and, above all, privately - by reading. … As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. "

― Aldous Huxley , Crome Yellow