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
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.
world preoccupation regard
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.
goal ought
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
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.
powerful enemy democracy
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
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.
love mother children
You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.
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
people battle would-be
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.
technology yield rabbits
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.