Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London, The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, 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. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they do not dare to trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
—Aldous Huxley
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
—Aldous Huxley
I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
—Aldous Huxley
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
—Aldous Huxley
Topics: Intelligence, Intellectuals
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
—Aldous Huxley
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
—Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
—Aldous Huxley
Topics: Solitude
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit
of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
—Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
—Aldous Huxley
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
—Aldous Huxley
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
—Aldous Huxley
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the “higher life.”
—Aldous Huxley
Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
—Aldous Huxley
Topics: Thought, Thoughts, Thinking
The secret of genius is to carry the
spirit of the child into old age,
which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
—Aldous Huxley
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
—Aldous Huxley
Topics: Genius
Most human beings have an almost infinite
capacity for taking things for granted.
—Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man;
it is what a man does with what happens to him.
—Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
—Aldous Huxley
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
—Aldous Huxley
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