Quote

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

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
Present
Rapidly
Known
Capital
Nature
Prosperity
Spending
Consequence
Planet
Planets
Environment
Irreplaceable

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
Aldous Huxley
Image
One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
Aldous Huxley
Image
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Dedicated to all those who say: I don't have time for analytics or I don't understand analytics.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
Image
To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley
Image
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
Aldous Huxley
Image
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
Image
My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
Aldous Huxley