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
believe mind religion
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
art mean religion
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
religion vertebrates
God: a gaseous vertebrate.
illustration events religion-and-politics
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.
people religion pins
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
fear giving religion
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
religion chastity unnatural
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
consistency consistent people
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
string thread words
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
mad shall truth
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
absolute beings capacity english-novelist human infinite taking
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
becomes except fantastic god learnt neither nor ourselves rational science simple terms thinks
We have learnt that nothing is simple and rational except what we ourselves have invented; that God thinks in terms neither of Euclid nor of Riemann; that science has "explained" nothing; that the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
inspirational strong soul-and-body
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
history lessons men
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.