Home / Quotes / Quote by Aldous Huxley

Quote by Aldous Huxley

“I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.”

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Author

Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, renowned for his dystopian novel 'Brave New World'. Born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England, he was the younger brother of the poet and critic Leonard Huxley. Huxley's works frequently delved into the interplay of science, politics, and philosophy, and he was a prominent figure in the literary movement known as the 'Lost Generation'. He passed away on November 22, 1963. more

You May Also Like

“Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.”

People Years Wells Life Is Joy Nations Wonder Mystery Holy Comfort Offers Losing Cancer Heal Remembered Awe Burned Confrontation Great Power Burn Out Burned Out People With Cancer

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.”

Use Opportunity Given Nature

Book:Claudian with an English Translation by Maurice Platnauer (Complete)

Source: Claudian with an English Translation by Maurice Platnauer (Complete)

“Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!”

World Trying Children Stills Might Eye Universe Nature Sun Sky Praying Blue Shining Calm Tunes Overhead Sparkling

Book:How To Stop Worrying and Start

Source: How To Stop Worrying and Start

“There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.”

Doe Nature Hours Effort Color Circumstances Approach Climate Mortals Intensity Artificial Sunlight Exhibits Hue Pigment Living Color

Book:Modern Painters ...: pt. 1-2. Of general principles, and Of truth. 5th ed

Source: Modern Painters ...: pt. 1-2. Of general principles, and Of truth. 5th ed

“If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.”

Ifs Way Nature Pitchforks

Book:Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose

Source: Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose

“Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.”

Ifs Heart Able Found Nature Known Greatness Source Return Solitude Eternal Rhythm Finding Yourself Insignificant Chatter Peace Within

Book:Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

“I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.”

Nature Tree Sunlight Patches Soothing

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921

“There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.”

People May Feelings Certain Humanity Nature Justice Animal Kindness Tree Duty Creatures Plant Obligation Consideration Mutual Intercourse Benevolence Susceptible

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“We cannot fail in following nature.”

Nature Failing Following

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.”

Source: Favorite Poems