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
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.
art way reason
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
two world way
I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
way wells
Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
thinking important way
Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics.
mind use way
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
gun fire way
The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
brave-new-world guilt way
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
dream way pragmatic
Dream in a pragmatic way.
ignorance stupidity-and-ignorance way
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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.
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.