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
alive
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
perfection infinite eternal
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
results strain
Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
self world action
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
determination bored majority
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
thinking should-have people
It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.
learning sage saint
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
anarchy wave utopia
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
christian ideas perfect
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
gay night church
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
believe mean profound
I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
embarrassing seems kinder
It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
work reality people
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
orthodoxy prejudice world
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.