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
consistency consistent people
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
english-novelist man served servitude
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
string thread words
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
brave-new-world men law
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.
mad shall truth
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
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.
majority logic reason
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
50th-birthday age genius
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
brave-new-world destiny people
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
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.
brave-new-world looks misery
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
solemn cease
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
peace hypocrisy long
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
imagination world realizing
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.