Aldous Huxley: "My father considered a walk among the mountains..."

About Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can, and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

—Aldous Huxley

morality regret repentance remore

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

—Aldous Huxley

happiness pursuit

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

—Aldous Huxley

gratitude ability

Dream in a pragmatic way.

—Aldous Huxley

idealism dream pragmatism

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

—Aldous Huxley

perception equality

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I learn something every time I go into the mountains.

—Michael Kennedy

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

—Victor Hugo

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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

—Eric Hoffer

skill faith mountains

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

—Hosea Ballou

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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