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

Keluarga

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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Pendidikan

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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Nasihat

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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Nasihat

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

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Motivasi

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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Kehidupan

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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Seni

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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Keluarga

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

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Pendidikan

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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Perjuangan

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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Perjuangan

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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Keluarga

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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Kreativitas

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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Cinta

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

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Kebahagiaan

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

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Kehidupan

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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Pendidikan

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

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Kehidupan

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

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Waktu

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

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Kehidupan

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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