Quote

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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
Men
Like
Abominate
Feeling
Sense
Feelings
Work
Every
Good

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals it cannot be mass-produced.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou') the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.
Aldous Huxley
Image
In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
Image
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The social body persists although the component cells may change.
Aldous Huxley