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Aldous Huxley Quotes (266 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: The Rest is Silence - Music at Night and Other Essays (1931) |
| Source/Notes: Tragedy and the Whole Truth - Music at Night and Other Essays (1931) |
| “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ―Aldous Huxley Source/Notes: Proper Studies (1927) |
| Source/Notes: Variant: "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." From: Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5 |
| “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” ―Aldous Huxley Source/Notes: As quoted in: "F. Matthias Alexander and the Creative Advance of the Individual" by George C. Bowden, L.N.Fowler, 1965, p. 97 |
| “Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.” ―Aldous Huxley Source/Notes: "Case of Voluntary Ignorance in Collected Essays (1959) |
| “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 Source/Notes: Collected essays (1971 edition) |
| “An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.” ―Aldous Huxley Source/Notes: As quoted in Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006) by Peter J. Mayhew, p. 24. Also in: Forbes, Volume 162, Issues 10-14 (1998), p. 396 |
| Source/Notes: As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 239 |
| Source/Notes: The collected works of Aldous Huxley (1957 edition) |
| “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” ―Aldous Huxley Source/Notes: Essay Distractions I in Vedanta for the Western World (1945) edited by Christopher Isherwood |
| “A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.” ―Aldous Huxley Source/Notes: Complete Essays: 1936-1938 (2001 edition), Ivan R. Dee Publisher - ISBN: 9781566633949 |
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Aldous Huxley
Born: July 26, 1894
Died: November 22, 1963 (aged 69)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Novelist, writer
Bio: Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.
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