Aldous Huxley

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#writing #writers-block

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#funny

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#life #plague #death

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly. ‘Quite so… ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#philosophy #shakespeare #dreams

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#circles #come #hallmark #kind #regarded

No podemos salir de nuestra irracionalidad fundamental por medio del razonamiento. Lo único que podemos hacer es aprender el arte de ser irracional en forma racional. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#irracionalidad #la-isla #art

... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#humor #inspirational #art

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#love

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z.... ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#dating

If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#rationality #men