Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)

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Lived 1894–1963, aged 69United Kingdom

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1894–1963
Aged 69
Known for
Alice in Wonderland
1951

Summary

Updated 2026-06-21

He wrote the blueprint for dystopia that everyone now lives inside — a world of engineered happiness and synthetic comfort that feels less like prophecy than inventory.

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About

Born into the prominent Huxley family in 1894, Aldous Huxley graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature and began publishing short stories, poetry, and witty social satire. In 1932 he published Brave New World, the novel that would shadow the rest of his career. A pacifist drawn toward philosophical mysticism, he moved to Los Angeles in 1937 and spent his final decades exploring the territories between Western and Eastern thought in The Perennial Philosophy (1945) and chronicling his mescaline experiments in The Doors of Perception (1954). He was nominated for…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

said1929

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

— "Wordsworth in the Tropics" in Do What You Will (1929)

Aldous Huxley

said1929

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

— Do What You Will (1929)

Aldous Huxley

said1926

What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

— "Where are the Movies Moving?" in Essays Old and New (1926)

Aldous Huxley

said1926

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

— Part IV: America,Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey, (1926)

Aldous Huxley

said1926

ONE of the evil results of the political subjection of one people by another is that it tends to make the subject nation unnecessarily and excessively conscious of its past.

— Jesting Pilate: An Intellectual Holiday (1926). pp. 141-143.

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