Aldous Huxley Quotes

Biography: Aldous Huxley is best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World."... more Biography: Aldous Huxley is best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World." Born in 1894 in England, Huxley was a prominent writer and philosopher who explored themes of modernity, technology, and societal issues. His works span novels, essays, and screenplays, reflecting a deep concern for humanity's future. less

"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.""Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.""A large city cannot be experientially understood; its life retains its mystery until we have lived in it for many generations.""It is far easier to write an acceptable obituary for another than to write one for oneself.""You learn to love by loving.""To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.""Writers write to influence their readers""People will insist on treating the mons veneris as though it were Mount Everest.""The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a few moments, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. In the sugar of modern life, art has disposed of all these good qualities.""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.""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.""There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving.""The greatest genuine reformers of the past, if brought back to this world today, would tremble lest their labors have irretrievably deserved confusion. ""Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.""One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.""There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.""Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking""Man is an amphibious creature – a being who cannot live in the water and cannot live out of it ""Love casts out fear, but conversely fear casts out love ""Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself "

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