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
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Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
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I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
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Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
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Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.