Aldous Huxley Quotes

• Every man’s memory is his private literature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Literature

• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born – the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Language

• Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in History

  Tags in Lessons, Learn, Important

• Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Increase, Dignity, Inverse, Importance

• Chastity – the most unnatural of all the s*xual perversions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chastity

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Resembles, Theory, Image

• Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bullying, Good, Universal, Human

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture, Fortunately, Cultured, Leisure

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Famous, Habit, Ignorance

• Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Ignorance

• Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Situation, Cynical, Intelligent

• Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prolonged, Thoughts, Thinking

• There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Virtues, Talent

• There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in About, Boring

• There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth

• An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than s*x.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interesting, Intellectual, Person

• Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Enthusiasm, Freedom

• The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Anarchy, Efficiency, Enemies, Freedom

• Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudice, Neither, Diehard, Learns, Forget

• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority, Fools

Aldous Huxley (155)

Birth:	26th July, 1894
Death:	22nd November, 1963
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. Aldous Huxley was a humanist and pacifist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism.He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank, and highly regarded as one of the most prominent explorers of visual communication and sight-related theories as well.
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