Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)

· 1894 - 1963 · 234 kata bijak

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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Nasihat

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

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

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Aldous Huxley

Perjuangan

Tidak kalah daripada perang atau kenegaraan, sejarah ekonomi juga memiliki zaman heroik.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

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Aldous Huxley

Motivasi

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

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…

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before the crusade began.

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Kejujuran

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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Aldous Huxley

Kejujuran

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

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Aldous Huxley

Kejujuran

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

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Aldous Huxley

Kejujuran

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

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Aldous Huxley

Doa

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

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Kebahagiaan

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

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Aldous Huxley

Kebahagiaan

Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

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Aldous Huxley

Seni

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

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Aldous Huxley

Seni

Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.

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Seni

The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.

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