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)
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
~ Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
~ Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
~ Aldous Huxley
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
~ Aldous Huxley
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
~ Aldous Huxley
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem
all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
~ Aldous Huxley
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
~ Aldous Huxley
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.
~ Aldous Huxley
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
~ Aldous Huxley
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
~ Aldous Huxley
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes.
In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
~ Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
~ Aldous Huxley
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy?
Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
~ Aldous Huxley
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
~ Aldous Huxley
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
~ Aldous Huxley
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
~ Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
~ Aldous Huxley
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
~ Aldous Huxley
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
~ Aldous Huxley
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
~ Aldous Huxley
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
~ Aldous Huxley
Irish dramatist, poet, author and one of the most iconic figures from
late Victorian society. For his sexuality he suffered the indignity and shame of imprisonment.
For a long time his name was synonymous with scandal and intrigue.
However with changing social attitudes he is remembered with great affection for his biting social criticism, wit and linguistic skills.
(1854-1900)
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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