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
names iliad ifs
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
reality common-sense brain
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.
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.
brave-new-world guilt way
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
liberty morality trust-others
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
gratitude kinder
Let us be kinder to one another.
sea arrows mind
You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.
wish chaos
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
cheating patriotic bully
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
intuition language spite
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
war stress people
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
holiday reality brave-new-world
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....
silly people lust
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!