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

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.

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Kehidupan

I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.

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Cinta

the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion.

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Harapan

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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Pendidikan

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

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Nasihat

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason.

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Perjuangan

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

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Kepemimpinan

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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Kreativitas

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

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Kehidupan

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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Waktu

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.

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Pendidikan

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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Kehidupan

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

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Motivasi

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.

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Kebahagiaan

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

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Kehidupan

A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously.

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Sukses

There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world–well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room? What are you to answer?

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Kepemimpinan

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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Perjuangan

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

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Perjuangan

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

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