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

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

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Aldous Huxley

Agama

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...

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Kehidupan

For I am you and you are I.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

An old codger rampant and still learning.

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Kreativitas

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

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Pendidikan

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.

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Keluarga

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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Alam

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

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Kehidupan

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

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Kehidupan

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

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Pendidikan

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

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Kehidupan

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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Seni

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.

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Doa

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.

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Keberanian

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

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Kehidupan

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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Persahabatan

To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.

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