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Aldous Leonard Huxley brit író, költő és filozófus. Az 1937-től az Egyesült Államokban élt író legismertebb műve a Szép új világ című disztópia, mely 1931-ben íródott majd egy évvel később jelent meg először nyomtatásban. Műveinek gyakori témája volt a társadalom, eszköze a társadalomkritika és a szatíra, de versei, esszéi, bűnügyi témájú regényei és novellái is voltak. Aldous Huxley-t hét különböző évben jelölték irodalmi Nobel-díjra. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. július 1894 – 22. november 1963  •  Más nevek Aldous L. Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Aldous Huxley híres idézetei

„A technológiai fejlődés csupán hatékonyabb eszközöket biztosított számunkra a visszafelé haladáshoz.”

Aldous Huxley

„Az univerzumnak csak egyetlen olyan szeglete van, amelynek javulásában biztos lehetsz, és ez a saját magad.”

Aldous Huxley

„Én én vagyok, és bárcsak ne lennék.”

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Aldous Huxley: Idézetek angolul

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

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"The Idea of Equality"
Forrás: Proper Studies (1927)

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

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Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey, (1926)
Forrás: https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/214/mode/2up?q=To+travel+is+to+discover+that+everyone+is+wrong Part II: Malaya

“Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Eyeless in Gaza

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“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World Revisited

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“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”

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Forrás: Jesting Pilate

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

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The Olive Tree (1936)

“… reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays….”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.”

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"Sermons in Cats the musical"
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

“Experience teaches only the teachable…”

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Tragedy and the Whole Truth
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

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Readers Digest (1934)

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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

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Aldous Huxley könyv Those Barren Leaves

Those Barren Leaves (1925)

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Ends and Means

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956); later in Collected Essays (1959), p. 293
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“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“It's a bit embarrassing… to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.”

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As quoted in Huston Smith, "Aldous Huxley--A Tribute," The Psychedelic Review, (1964) Vol I, No.3, (Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue), p. 264-5
Forrás: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience

“Ending is better than mending.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“Pain was a fascinating horror”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

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“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”

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“The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace,
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Ape and Essence

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“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.”

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