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
brave-new-world tasks addresses
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
brave-new-world men law
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.
kissing brave-new-world drug
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
men years brave-new-world-happiness
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though
men choices world
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
judging world wells
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
brave-new-world alcohol soma
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
brave-new-world brave-new-world-john brave-new-world-technology
But every one belongs to every one else
real world truth-is
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
happiness brave-new-world destiny
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
self world action
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
orthodoxy prejudice world
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
men intelligent world
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
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.