Aldous Huxley idézet

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

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

„Én én vagyok, és bárcsak ne lennék.”

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

“No social stability without individual stability.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Experience teaches only the teachable…”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Ending is better than mending.”

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

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”

“Liberties aren't given, they are taken.”

“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.”

“Pain was a fascinating horror”

“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.”

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

“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.”