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
busy factories nature-love
A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
hyde human-nature poet
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
country nature class
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
nature environment prosperity
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
nature flavor may
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
nature father climbing
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
life death nature
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
nature men tyrants
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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.