185 ordspråk av Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley föddes den 26 juli 1894 och dog den 22 november 1963 - English writer
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 Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

 Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

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

 Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

 Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.

 Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

 Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital

 Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

 Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons

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

 That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you´ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach

 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.

 The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.


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