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
medicine progress medical-science
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
god sacrifice self
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
book reading past
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
happiness conscious pursuit
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
dog animal men
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ignorance stupidity-and-ignorance way
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
space watches answers
And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.
animal reality goal
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.
inspirational life failure
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
education wisdom witty
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
next generations mass
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
trying boat sinking
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
health learning men
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
cat men wife
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.