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

Seni

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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Seni

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

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Kehidupan

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

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Kreativitas

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

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Pendidikan

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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Kehidupan

These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

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Cinta

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

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Aldous Huxley

Alam

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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Alam

Nature is powerless to put asunder.

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Kehidupan

Pain was a fascinating horror

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Aldous Huxley

Seni

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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Kepemimpinan

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

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Cinta

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

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Kehidupan

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

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Perjuangan

He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.

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Kehidupan

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

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Kehidupan

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

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Kebahagiaan

It is a scene of Satyrs and Nymphs, of pursuits and captures, provocative resistances followed by the enthusiastic surrender of lips to bearded lips, of panting bosoms to the impatience of rough hands, the whole accompanied by a babel of shouting, squealing and shrill laughter

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