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

Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas—that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!

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Kehidupan

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

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Waktu

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

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Motivasi

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

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Kreativitas

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

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Doa

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

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Kreativitas

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

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Kehidupan

In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.

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Kehidupan

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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Motivasi

Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it.

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Kebahagiaan

Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

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Kehidupan

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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Kepemimpinan

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

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Humor

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

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Nasihat

And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

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Kehidupan

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

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Kehidupan

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

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Seni

He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.

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Kebahagiaan

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

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Kehidupan

That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire.

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