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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Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. 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.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Bok

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Folk reser för samma skäl som de samlar konstverk: eftersom den bästa sortens människor gör det.

People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it

Reise

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

Helvete

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

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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