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
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.
brave-new-world destiny people
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
destiny patterns chance
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
cat writing want
If you want to write, keep cats.
bad-day simple listening
There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
stupid class may
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
motivational education atheist
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
brave-new-world men brave-new-world-john
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
morality creationism meaninglessness
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
spiritual philosophy humanity
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
technology political democracy
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.