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
brave-new-world views silence
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
passion masters water-and-fire
Words are good servants but bad masters.
memories men literature
Every man's memory is his private literature.
dream way pragmatic
Dream in a pragmatic way.
mean technology progress
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
sunset kissing generations
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
brave-new-world looks misery
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
differences liberty facts
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.
meditation soul grace
The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
hands solitude feelings
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
blessed sleep insomnia
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
morning world lambs
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
nasty being-myself brave-new-world-happiness
I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
love technology thinking
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.