Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxleywas an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first in English literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 July 1894
Aldous Huxley quotes about
busy factories nature-love
A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
sky stills
Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
queens eye desire
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
brave-new-world punishment enemy
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
embarrassing seems kinder
It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
bullying fun responsibility
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.
civilization savages agree
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
brave-new-world brave-new-world-john brave-new-world-technology
But every one belongs to every one else
remember moments doors-of-perception
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
vanity care individual
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
alive
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
perfection infinite eternal
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
peace war men
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
journey long intellectual
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.