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

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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Seni

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.

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Aldous Huxley

Keluarga

There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life— a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

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Aldous Huxley

Sukses

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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Aldous Huxley

Waktu

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

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Kehidupan

Stability,” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

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Aldous Huxley

Waktu

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –

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Aldous Huxley

Seni

Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

We float in language like icebergs – four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

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Keluarga

In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold.

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Pendidikan

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, 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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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...

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Aldous Huxley

Kreativitas

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

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Kehidupan

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

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