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

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

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Aldous Huxley

Kebahagiaan

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

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

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Aldous Huxley

Doa

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

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Aldous Huxley

Keluarga

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

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Aldous Huxley

Waktu

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

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Aldous Huxley

Keluarga

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

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Aldous Huxley

Waktu

If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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Aldous Huxley

Pendidikan

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

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Aldous Huxley

Nasihat

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

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

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

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Aldous Huxley

Seni

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.

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Aldous Huxley

Kehidupan

Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

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