Authors - Aldous Huxley
Brief Biography
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963) 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, 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. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1365by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Quote 1664by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
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.
Quote 1849by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.
Quote 2297by Anonymous on 27/01/2011
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Quote 2421by Anonymous on 29/01/2011
Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Quote 2974by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Quote 3078by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Quote 3114by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Quote 3205by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Quote 3651by Anonymous on 08/02/2011
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Quote 3967by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
Quote 4309by Anonymous on 19/02/2011
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Quote 4383by Anonymous on 20/02/2011
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Quote 4435by Anonymous on 21/02/2011
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Quote 4764by Anonymous on 27/02/2011
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Quote 4801by Anonymous on 01/03/2011
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
Quote 4973by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
Death ... It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Quote 8110by Anonymous on 23/04/2012
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Quote 8501by Anonymous on 15/05/2012
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Quote 8806by Anonymous on 30/05/2012
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Quote 8901by Anonymous on 04/06/2012
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Quote 9566by Anonymous on 04/08/2012
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Quote 10414by Anonymous on 03/10/2012
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Quote 12064by Anonymous on 24/02/2013
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
Quote 12426by Anonymous on 11/04/2013
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Quote 13764by Anonymous on 31/08/2013
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
