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.
string thread words
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
arts cash heaven owes pay perish solid starving thank tribute
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
english-novelist man served servitude
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
themselves work
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are
knowledge discovery self
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
beauty beholder both holder worse
Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder
doors known perception
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception
two done might
Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.
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
medicine healthy progress
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
birthday children mean
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
inspirational motivational positive
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.