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
passion want feels
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
country children giving
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
brave-new-world destiny people
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
life wall ignorance
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend
history atheism havens
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
powerful loneliness creativity
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
art sublime action
Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.
bad-day simple listening
There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
personality political looks
All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
education children teaching
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
death dying lasts
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
memories men literature
Every man's memory is his private literature.
men mad fool
At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
inspirational teaching experience
Experience teaches only the teachable.