Aldous Huxley - Quodid

About

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

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Aldous Huxley, Island

Quotes from Aldous Huxley

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.

—Aldous Huxley

One-third, more or less, of all the sorrow . . . [we] must endure is . . . inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time . . . toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two-thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

—Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

—Aldous Huxley

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

—Aldous Huxley

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

—Aldous Huxley in Island

seeing glass

God glows and flames . . . Eternity, believe it or not; it's as real as shit.

—Aldous Huxley in Island

God eternity

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

—Aldous Huxley in Those Barren Leaves

fear obscurity genuineness

Books

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