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
artist significant theory
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
passion feelings madness
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
goal life-is life-goal
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
monday life-is
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
flower
The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
cat thinking symphony
Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.
hell incapacity creatures
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
philosophy animal humanity
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines...
illustration events religion-and-politics
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.
evil unity separateness
Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
mind assonance alliteration
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
character men average
A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..
philosophy passion reality
Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.
voice sound persuasive
How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!