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
time intuition duration
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
art fool right-time
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
time blood world
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
names ghost only-time
Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
time numbers race
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
life forgiveness time
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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.
facts indulge knee sheer sitting talk utter wise words
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
english-novelist man served servitude
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
arts cash heaven owes pay perish solid starving thank tribute
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
mad shall truth
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
consistency consistent people
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
string thread words
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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.