Quote

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

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
Wine
Assessing
Taste
Sebastian
Stop
Champagne
Must
Knife
Time
Knives
Apple
Steel
Apples
Peeled

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
We live together, we act on, and react to one another but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
Aldous Huxley
Image
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.
Aldous Huxley
Image
In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
Aldous Huxley
Image
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
Aldous Huxley
Image
I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Pain was a fascinating horror
Aldous Huxley
Image
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
Aldous Huxley
Image
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
Aldous Huxley
Image
I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
Aldous Huxley
Image
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.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Consciousness is only possible through change change is only possible through movement.
Aldous Huxley
Image
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.
Aldous Huxley