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
bullying fun responsibility
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.
funny positive happiness
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
funny yoga health
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
inspirational funny travel
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
fun war yesterday
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?
funny humorous life-sucks
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
funny bible jesus
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
absolute beings capacity english-novelist human infinite taking
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
comedy
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
becomes except fantastic god learnt neither nor ourselves rational science simple terms thinks
We have learnt that nothing is simple and rational except what we ourselves have invented; that God thinks in terms neither of Euclid nor of Riemann; that science has "explained" nothing; that the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
inspirational strong soul-and-body
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
medicine healthy progress
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
language-words levels able
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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.