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
cutting murder-victims two
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
yoga health men
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
art fool right-time
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
doe matter
...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
thinking self mind
I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.
good-intentions hell intention
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
death ambition frustration
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
men secret doubt
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
pain laughter emotional
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
insanity society insane
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
love emotional tears
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
love people violent
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
talent virtue substitutes
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
revolutionary consistent
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.