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
spiritual ethical individual
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
spiritual ethical individual
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
luxury people promise
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
too-much brave-new-world-happiness brave-new-world-freedom
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.
two sorrow unnecessary
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
passion want feels
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
death dying lasts
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
history atheism havens
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
fall brave-new-world giving
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?
majority logic reason
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
spiritual ignorance journey
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.
health learning men
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
powerful army brave-new-world
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
compassion long planets
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.