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
cat writing want
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
country kings truth
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
book reading writing
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
war hands two
Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.
world pay leisure
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
spiritual ethical individual
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
nasty said brave-new-world-technology
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
love wise wisdom
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
two sorrow unnecessary
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
brave-new-world individual social
No social stability without individual stability.
motivational music wisdom
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
beauty hurt wine
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
animal cows obsession
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
50th-birthday age genius
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.