185 ordspråk av Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley föddes den July 26th 1894 och dog den 22 November 1963 - English writer
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 All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. |
| An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. |
| An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. |
| An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting to think about than sex |
| An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. |
| At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. |
| At thirty-three . . . Lilian Aldwinkle appealed to all the instinctive bigamist in one. She was eighteen in the attics and widow Dido on the floors below. |
| Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder |
| But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock. |
| But when the wearied Band / Swoons to a waltz, I take her hand, / And there we sit in peaceful calm, / Quietly sweating palm to palm. |
| Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic. |
| Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. |
| Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. |
| 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. |
| Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. |
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