He was widely considered to be one of the most intelligent and wide-ranging English writers of the twentieth century.
Huxley symbolized a man in his restless curiosity. He searched for meaning in a post-religious age, and was concerned about
the mistreatment of science and the future of the planet.
He was also one of the most intriguing and complex figures of twentieth-century English writing. His brain capacity was
outstanding; he was a philosopher, novelist, poet, biographer and a great social and political thinker.
In his thinking, Huxley was never confined by conventional categories, concerned to communicate his insights in ordinary language.
A very English intellectual!
(1894-1963)
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
~ Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
~ Aldous Huxley
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
~ Aldous Huxley
The proper study of mankind is books.
~ Aldous Huxley
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning
certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
~ Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature.
~ Aldous Huxley
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.
You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
~ Aldous Huxley
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
~ Aldous Huxley
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.
~ Aldous Huxley
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
~ Aldous Huxley
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
~ Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
~ Aldous Huxley
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man
who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
~ Aldous Huxley
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
~ Aldous Huxley
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
~ Aldous Huxley
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
~ Aldous Huxley
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
~ Aldous Huxley
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
~ Aldous Huxley
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
~ Aldous Huxley
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
~ Aldous Huxley
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
~ Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
~ Aldous Huxley
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a popular American author and humorist.
Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age."
Twain was called "the father of American literature"
and he was most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(1835-1910)
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
~ Dante Alighieri
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
~ Oscar WildeMore Proverbs
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