Aldous Huxley's Little Book of Essential Quotes

Aldous Huxley's Little Book of Essential Quotes

"Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof – that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work." - Aldous Huxley -- Selected quotes from Aldous Huxley at your fingertips - A great way to explore the ideas and philosophy of Aldous Huxley - Ideal for casual reading, sparking ideas, and finding inspiration - Makes a thoughtful gift choice for friends and family -- "The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist." - Aldous Huxley -- "All science is based upon an act of faith — faith in the validity of the mind's logical processes, faith in the ultimate explicability of the world, faith that the laws of thought are laws of things." - Aldous Huxley -- "First Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugues, a bore; first differential equations, sheer torture. But training changes the nature of our spiritual experiences. In due course, contact with an obscurely beautiful poem, an elaborate piece of counterpoint or of mathematical reasoning, causes us to feel direct intuitions of beauty and significance. It is the same in the moral world." - Aldous Huxley