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
christian ideas perfect
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
ideas literature huxley
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
ideas mind trying
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that the magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
ideas world obscure
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
writing ideas knows
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
themselves work
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are
age engine golden industrial iron man mental revolution revolving uniform wheel wonder
Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
english-novelist knows life multiply power ways
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.
change changing found sure
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
degrees drink equal hardened hundred indulge love nirvana parts proof pure spirit-and-spirituality
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.
english-novelist man served servitude
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
medicine healthy progress
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
language-words levels able
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
spiritual ignorance journey
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.