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
thinking temptation artistic
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
cities able life-is
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
fear-of-love goodness casts
Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
romance energy monogamy
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
practice tyrants may
Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.
self affair moments
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
chance given humans
Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
people religion pins
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
faces portraiture profile
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.
fun war yesterday
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?
kissing squids race
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
life purpose moments
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
reality rivers too-much
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
enormous-quantities alcohol heaven
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.