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Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.

Fun, Procrastination, Enjoyment, Present Moment, Life Philosophy, Hedonism

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have

Aldous Huxley’s Quotes On Topics

Self-indulgence | Extremism | Self-discovery | Writing | Loneliness | Discipline | Medicine | Consequences | Mountains | Stability | Health | Positive Psychology | Study | Dystopian Concept | Entropy | Timing | Infinity | Barbershop Quartet | Sloth | Metaphorical Observation | More

More Aldous Huxley Quotes

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

Self-improvement, Certainty, Personal Growth, Responsibility, Philosophy, Life Advice

“Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.”

Ideology, Violence, Utopia, Irony, Societal Critique, Philosophical Satire

“Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.”

Present, Time, Perception, Change, Metaphorical Insight, Philosophical Observation

“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?”

Death, Denial, Mortality, Science, Human Nature, Dark Humor

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”

Memory, Individuality, Literature, Personal Experience, Philosophical Metaphor, Psychological Insight

“The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.”

Nature, Investigation, Knowledge, Exploration, Infinite Pasture, Sweet Flavor

“These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.”

Simplicity, Authenticity, Perception, Human Values, Philosophical Advice, Appreciation

“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”

Truth, Error, Knowledge, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Epistemological Observation

“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”

Spirituality, Desire, Control, Mysticism, Philosophical Advice, Religious Insight

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”

Writing, Quality, Effort, Sincerity, Artistic Creation, Philosophical Observation

“Ending is better than mending.”

Consumerism, Waste, Societal Values, Modernism, Throwaway Culture, Dystopian Concept

“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.”

Life, Escapism, Transcendence, Human Condition, Spiritual Need, Philosophical Observation

“Words are good servants but bad masters.”

Words, Language, Power, Wisdom, Philosophical Insight, Metaphorical Observation

“Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.”

Simplification, Truth, Balance, Wisdom, Philosophical Advice, Intellectual Insight

“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students – how to write piercingly. But what on earth's the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really piercing – you know, like the very hardest X-rays – when you're writing about that sort of thing? Can you say something about nothing?”

Words, Writing, Impact, Teaching, Triviality, Philosophical Question

“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.”

Civilization, Culture, Nourishment, Literature, Societal Critique, Ironic Observation

“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”

War, Absurdity, Human Nature, Violence, Societal Critique, Philosophical Observation

“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”

Thinking, Avoidance, Consciousness, Distraction, Self-awareness, Mental Escape

“Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.”

Death, Spirituality, Carnality, Human Experience, Physical Reality, Existential Struggle

“If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.”

Human Nature, Self-awareness, Darkness, Violence, Self-destruction, Psychological Insight