Aldous Huxley Quotes

• We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Age, Funny

• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Age, Funny, Genius

  Tags in Spirit, Losing

• 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.Advice

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Advice

• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in History

• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions, Dogs

• 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

• 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

• 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

• At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Ideals, Politics, Religion, Suffering

  Tags in Extremism, Stupidity, Evil

• The traveller’s-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Actors And Acting, World

• 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

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in War

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Trained

• Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Achievement, Belief

• The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Book, Writing

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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