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
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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.
past matter remember
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
travel sacrifice comfort
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
kings holiday technology
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
unhappiness malice folly
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
names iliad ifs
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
political important capacity
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
prayer done lord
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.