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
women eggs female
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
ignorance reality ignored
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
taken progress gains
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
cheating patriotic bully
One of the great attractions of patriotism
real world truth-is
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
truth freedom knowledge
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
risk environment drink
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
life men propose
In life, man proposes, God disposes.
money reading men
Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
here-i-am ignorant survival
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
art mean religion
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
liberty growing poverty
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.
happiness brave-new-world destiny
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
vanity care individual
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.