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
art brave-new-world people
"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
smile men hamlet-and-ophelia
A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
excited stills unsatisfied
To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
too-much brave-new-world-happiness brave-new-world-freedom
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.
love soul principles
Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.
wise angel vanity
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
philosophy real mean
To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.
life-is-short information life-is
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
Can you say something about nothing?
character mean may
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
god spirituality results
Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
country dope people
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
trying lsd last-words
Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.
hurt writing thinking
I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.