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
mad shall truth
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
real world truth-is
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
truth freedom knowledge
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
truth brave-new-world two
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
art truth past
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
truth mistake men
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
truth literature platitudes
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
country kings truth
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
honesty truth lying
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
good-morning truth men
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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.
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.
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.
absolute beings capacity english-novelist human infinite taking
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.