99 Inspiring Quotes By Aldous Huxley, The Author Of Brave New World
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English novelist, intellectual, satirist and essayist, who rose to prominence in the 20th century as one of the most important literary figures of the time. He was born in the influential Huxley family which was known throughout England for producing some of the finest minds in the country and he was no exception. He studied at Eton College and then at Oxford University, before embarking on a remarkably successful career as a writer. He was also the editor of the Oxford Poetry magazine during his life as a university student. Huxley’s most famous works as a novelist includes the novel ‘Brave New World’, ‘Point Counter Point’, ‘The Perennial Philosophy’ and ‘Island’ among others. He was also a prolific writer of non-fiction and one of the well-known works in that genre is the book ‘The Doors of Perception.’ Huxley had also worked on movie scripts and had also been an active travel writer. His life’s work as a literary figure of rare gift saw him elected to the Royal Society of Literature as the Champion of Literature. Here are some of the best quotes from Aldous Huxley’s life and work that would certainly appeal to the curious mind.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
No social stability without individual stability.
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
