Quote

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

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
Unite
Heroic
Hero
Higher
Interest

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Aldous Huxley
Image
In life, man proposes, God disposes.
Aldous Huxley
Image
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
Aldous Huxley
Image
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
Aldous Huxley
Image
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Everyone belongs to everyone else.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Aldous Huxley
Image
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
Aldous Huxley
Image
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
Aldous Huxley