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)
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
~ Aldous Huxley
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
~ Aldous Huxley
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
~ Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
~ Aldous Huxley
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
~ Aldous Huxley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~ Aldous Huxley
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
~ Aldous Huxley
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
~ Aldous Huxley
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration
at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
~ Aldous Huxley
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent,
directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
~ Aldous Huxley
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
~ Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
~ Aldous Huxley
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~ Aldous Huxley
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
~ Aldous Huxley
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
~ Aldous Huxley
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
~ Aldous Huxley
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
~ Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
~ Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous Huxley
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
~ Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
~ Aldous Huxley
Dante Alighieri was the greatest of Italian poets, and, many readers think, one of the greatest poets that Western civilization has produced.
He wrote the epic work Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) in dialect Italian. Divina Commedia represented the cosmology and
cosmogony of Dante's day. Dante also wrote De Monarchia, a treatise on political science. He believed that the purpose of government
was to preserve peace and the best form was a world monarchy. According to his concept, universe was a perfect, hierarchal, intelligible cosmos.
(1265-1321)
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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