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
religious men political
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today
hyde human-nature poet
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
angel men artist
There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
cures gloomy sentiments
One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
military animal perfect
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
evil
Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
christian golden communist
Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
memories book snapshots
The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
book heart names
Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.
life routine natural
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
soul captains fate-and-destiny
[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
blessed sleep blessing
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
interesting advertising modern
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
book writing byron
Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!