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
science circles literature
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
equality men literature
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
ideas literature huxley
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
writing novel sentiments
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.