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
writing ambition men
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
brave-new-world guilt way
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
inspirational inspiring years
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
dirty blessed acceptance
Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
want menace stability
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
community identity stories
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
movement consciousness conscious
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
marriage taken adultery
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
truth literature platitudes
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
sunset kissing generations
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
funny bible jesus
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
running matter ceilings
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
religion chastity unnatural
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
life education thinking
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.