The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice. Aldous Huxley strong air men Nothing short of everything will really do. Aldous Huxley There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation. Aldous Huxley adultery marriage taken 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 byron writing book One of the great attractions of patriotism Aldous Huxley bully patriotic cheating Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit. Aldous Huxley class civilization mean When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. Aldous Huxley truth-is real world Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century? Aldous Huxley women female eggs ... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. Aldous Huxley freedom truth knowledge We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time. Aldous Huxley drink environment risk Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. Aldous Huxley knives wine food For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal. Aldous Huxley saws speech eye Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. Aldous Huxley composer music art A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. Aldous Huxley portraiture profile faces I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas. Aldous Huxley religious past thinking People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. Aldous Huxley pins people religion Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. Aldous Huxley doing-your-best ready grace Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as. Aldous Huxley incapacity hell creatures I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts. Aldous Huxley my-thoughts second-thoughts writing One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. Aldous Huxley life-is monday
