Aldous Leonard Huxley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Aldous Leonard Huxley /?h?ksli/ (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London, The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, 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. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He became deeply concerned that human beings might become subjugated through the sophisticated use of the mass media or mood-altering drugs, or tragically impacted by misunderstanding or the misapplication of increasingly sophisticated technology.Huxley later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, in particular, Universalism. He is also well known for his use of psychedelic drugs. By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
Julian Huxley, Andrew Huxley, Margaret Arnold Huxley, Noel Trevelyan Huxley, David Bruce Huxley
Nominations
Nobel Prize in Literature
Movies
Hofmann's Potion, Brave New World, The Devils, Alice in Wonderland, Prelude to Fame, Jane Eyre, Madame Curie, Pride and Prejudice
Star Sign
Leo
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The means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
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[on children] We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures. Even more unsatisfactory has been the policy of complete toleration and unrestricted availability.
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamor of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
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Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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A bad book is as much a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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To his dog, every man is [Napoléon Bonaparte]; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence, it comes about that at their first appearance, innovators have always been divined as fools and madmen.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Fact
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His friend J.B.S. Haldane's ideas regarding artificial wombs, ectogenesis, and ectogens influenced his novel Brave New World (1932).
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Son of Leonard Huxley (1860-1933) and Julia Frances Arnold.
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Grandfather of Trevenen Huxley and Tessa Huxley.
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He allegedly declined knighthood of the British Empire in 1959 for his services to literature.
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Is mentioned in the Sheryl Crow song "Run Baby Run".
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