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
intuition language spite
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
freedom brave-new-world views
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
writing individuality literature
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
war stress people
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
mean happens insignificant
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
girl being-in-love illustration
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe. Objects and events cease to be mere representations of classes and become their own uniqueness; cease to be illustrations of verbal abstractions and become fully concrete. Then you stop being in love, and the universe collapses, with an almost audible squeak of derision, into its normal insignificance.
book reading writing
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
play age entertainment
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
sea arrows mind
You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.
inspiration writing people
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.
book brave-new-world culture
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
travel sacrifice comfort
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
goal ought
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
silly people lust
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!