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

Kehidupan

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

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Motivasi

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

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Keluarga

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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Motivasi

Dream in a pragmatic way.

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Kepemimpinan

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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Keluarga

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.

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Cinta

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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Kehidupan

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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Doa

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.

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Nasihat

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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Kehidupan

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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Kebahagiaan

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

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Kebahagiaan

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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Pendidikan

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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Kehidupan

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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Kehidupan

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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Kehidupan

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

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Pendidikan

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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Kepemimpinan

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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Pendidikan

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

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