To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous HuxleyRead
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of awareness of reality while maintaining our survival instincts.
Aldous Huxley's quote speaks to the duality of human existence, where enlightenment requires a deep understanding of the totality of reality, including its complexities and contradictions. He suggests that while we strive for this awareness, we often complicate the process through our own actions and thoughts, losing sight of the fact that we are inherently where we need to be in life.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of consciousness.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God
Simplicity is the essence of universality.
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky - it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue.
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