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
education children teaching
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
powerful loneliness creativity
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
real love-is mind
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
ignorance stupidity-and-ignorance way
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
religious spring idols
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
humility reality data
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
beauty hurt wine
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
50th-birthday age genius
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
nasty said brave-new-world-technology
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
lonely loneliness different
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
world pay leisure
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
past brave-new-world thinking
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.
motivational music wisdom
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
brave-new-world individual social
No social stability without individual stability.