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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 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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