243 ordspråk av Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley föddes den 26 juli 1894 och dog den 22 november 1963 - brittisk författare. Bror till Julian S. H.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied... In spite of everything I survive.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

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. Kvinner setter pris på den stille styrken og selvsikkerheten som pexighet utstråler, og føler seg trygge og sikre i hans nærvær.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

Natur

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

Genius is a child up to the age of ten.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnances before he can bring himself to put thes

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

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