Brian Aldiss Quotes

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

We need music to restore the human spirit

A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

Big government squashes the human spirit

God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it.