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
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 years two
Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
years people research
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
dog years doubt
In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
years space prejudice
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
past brave-new-world years
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.
inspirational inspiring years
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
years people majority
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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.