243 ordspråk av Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley föddes den 26 juli 1894 och dog den 22 november 1963 - English writer
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

A million million spermatozoa, / All of them alive: / Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah / Dare hope to survive. / And among that billion minus one / Might have chanced to be / Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne -/ But the One was Me.

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

Menn

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

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.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds

People

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting to think about than sex

Little boys may be an intolerable nuisance; but when they are not there we regret them, we find ourselves homesick for their very intolerableness

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are - there we are in the Golden Future

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Talent

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably 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.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul

Bok

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