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
real progress charity
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
art hypocrite hypocrisy
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
dog rain pet
Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
quiet grows
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
beautiful design may
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
heaven experience visionaries
I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.
real men average
In real life there is no such thing as the average man.
men statistics simplify
Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
people choices crowds
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
spiritual men oppression
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
character home men
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
dream reality self
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.
philosophy believe belief
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
looks innocence thrive
Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.