Quote

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Aldous Huxley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Beer
Stores
Loud
Affair
Disorderly
Drinking
Decorum
Worship
Celtic
Except
Religions
Store

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
Aldous Huxley
Image
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
Aldous Huxley
Image
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
Aldous Huxley
Image
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
Aldous Huxley
Image
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
Aldous Huxley
Image
All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
Aldous Huxley
Image
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
Aldous Huxley