Quote

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

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
Reality
Seems
Matter
Need
Take
Needs
Utopian
Something
Frequently
People
Holiday

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with I, me, mine, that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours it is also everybody else's.
Aldous Huxley
Image
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
Aldous Huxley
Image
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley
Image
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
Aldous Huxley
Image
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous Huxley
Image
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The more stitches, the less riches.
Aldous Huxley
Image
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
Aldous Huxley
Image
Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!
Aldous Huxley
Image
The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
Aldous Huxley
Image
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Dream in a pragmatic way.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley
Image
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley