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
philosophy hinduism core
Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
powerful enemy democracy
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
common-decency worst-enemy literature
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
lying two relaxation
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
art eye ducks
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.
light numbers people
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
evil mind prohibition
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
civilization medicine choices
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
inspirational birthday history
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
happiness people literature
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
country travel hippie
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
names iliad ifs
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
nature father climbing
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
men intelligent cynical
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.