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
suffering may individual
When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
vanity care individual
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
brave-new-world community individual
When the individual feels, the community reels.
insanity individual collectives
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
writing individuality literature
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
spiritual ethical individual
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
brave-new-world individual social
No social stability without individual stability.
themselves work
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are
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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.
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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.
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.