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
inspirational political gentleman
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
truth mistake men
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
peace hypocrisy long
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
unhappiness malice folly
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
luxury dull literature
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
fate soul literature
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
writing ideas knows
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
peace war men
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
prayer done lord
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
political important capacity
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
reality common-sense brain
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.
world preoccupation regard
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.
urbanization cities certain
All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.
thinking self feelings
"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.