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

Kreativitas

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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Aldous Huxley

Kreativitas

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

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Aldous Huxley

Agama

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

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Alam

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

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Pendidikan

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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Pendidikan

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

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Pendidikan

The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

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Aldous Huxley

Motivasi

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it.

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Aldous Huxley

Persahabatan

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

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Aldous Huxley

Persahabatan

And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know

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Kepemimpinan

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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Perjuangan

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

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Aldous Huxley

Perjuangan

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

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Aldous Huxley

Waktu

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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Pendidikan

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

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Waktu

Every change is a menace to stability.

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Kebahagiaan

One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.

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Nasihat

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

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