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
learning sage saint
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
conversations-with-god logical shoreline
The more you know, the more you see
sick civilisation
I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
buddhism atheism world
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.
training experience significant
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
drinking animal thinking
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.
mending
Ending is better than mending.
brave-new-world evil philosopher
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
fathers-day dad son
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
brave-new-world alcohol soma
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
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.
brave-new-world guilt way
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
illustration events religion-and-politics
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.