Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was an eminent writer and one of the prominent members of Huxley Family. His parents were Leonard Huxley and Julia Arnold. He started his learning in his father’s state of the art botanical laboratory and then in a school named Hillside. He studied under the supervision of his mother till her illness. He also suffered with keratitis punctata which made him to loose his eyesight for two to three years. Read More...
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.- Aldous Huxley
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
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.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
