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Quotes from Texts and Pretexts — Aldous Huxley

1894–1963 England

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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Texts and Pretexts (1932)

It is only by poets that the life of any epoch can be synthesized. Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good reason that they affect only the intellectual surface of a man’s life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched.

Texts and Pretexts (1932)

Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Texts and Pretexts (1932)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.