Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
Aldous Huxley
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Unbearably
Beautifully
Quiet
Grows
More quotes by Aldous Huxley
A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
Aldous Huxley
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
Aldous Huxley
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
Aldous Huxley
Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
Aldous Huxley
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?
Aldous Huxley
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Aldous Huxley
At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
Aldous Huxley
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
Aldous Huxley
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
Aldous Huxley
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley
If you want to write, keep cats.
Aldous Huxley
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
Aldous Huxley
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
Aldous Huxley
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
Aldous Huxley
Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
Aldous Huxley
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
Aldous Huxley
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Aldous Huxley