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
may action contemplation
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
life compass priests
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
simple light pigs
The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.
liberty world cages
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
addiction giving desire
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
mind use way
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
atheism christianity accepted
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
taken men data
The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.
sex believe people
The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.
art philosophy simple
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
war age heroic
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
dream growing-up men
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
dictator appeals tyranny
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
soul flesh revolution
This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.