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
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silly people lust
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
community identity stories
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
real hipster brave-new-world
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
home men two
Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
brave-new-world tasks addresses
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
taste facts mass
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
enormous-quantities alcohol heaven
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
reality rivers too-much
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
kissing squids race
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
wall believe mind
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free
technology yield rabbits
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
disappointment holiday
No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
time intuition duration
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
soul contemplation divine
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.