Quote

The more stitches, the less riches.

Aldous Huxley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Mending
Stitches
Riches
Less

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
Aldous Huxley
Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
Image
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
Aldous Huxley
Image
God: a gaseous vertebrate.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
Aldous Huxley
Image
We can't allow science to undo its own good work.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
Image
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.
Aldous Huxley
Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
Aldous Huxley