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
brave-new-world men talent
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
self civilization hygiene
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
beautiful brave-new-world bunk
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
truth brave-new-world two
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
love children philosophy
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.
sex sleep cat
If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
gratitude grateful men
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.
europe world results
I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
love indulge-in degrees
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
damn
A gramme is better than a damn,
love-is only-love knows
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
life fringe garments
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
country fear europe
The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.