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

No social stability without individual stability.

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Aldous Huxley

Waktu

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

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Aldous Huxley

Cinta

Every one belongs to every one else.

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Aldous Huxley

Keluarga

Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

There was something called Christianity.

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Aldous Huxley

Kreativitas

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Every man's memory is his private literature.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical.

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Aldous Huxley

Kreativitas

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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Aldous Huxley

Kreativitas

The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried.

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Aldous Huxley

Keberanian

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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Aldous Huxley

Kebahagiaan

What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

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Aldous Huxley

Perjuangan

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

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Aldous Huxley

Kreativitas

There's nothing like a re-creation of the event. Which is lucky. Think if one could fully remember perfume or kisses! How wearisome the reality of them would be!

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

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Aldous Huxley

Kebaikan

I’m not denying their kindness,” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.

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Aldous Huxley

Kepemimpinan

Like every other good thing in thisworld, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us beduly thankful for that, my dear Denis--duly thankful.

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