Aldous Huxley híres idézetei
Aldous Huxley: Idézetek angolul
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World Revisited
Forrás: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)
“Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I'm in a coma.”
Forrás: Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World
Forrás: Brave New World
Aldous Huxley könyv The Doors of Perception
Page 159
The Doors of Perception (1954)
“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World
Forrás: Brave New World
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World
Forrás: Brave New World
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World
The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 16
Forrás: Brave New World (1932)
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World
Változat: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Forrás: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3<!-- p. 50 -->
Forrás: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World
Forrás: Brave New World
“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World
Forrás: Brave New World
Aldous Huxley könyv The Doors of Perception
Forrás: The Doors of Perception
“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”
Aldous Huxley könyv Point Counter Point
Forrás: Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 17
Kontextus: Ever since his mother’s second marriage Spandrell had always perversely made the worst of things, chosen the worst course, deliberately encouraged his own worst tendencies. It was with debauchery that he distracted his endless leisures. He was taking his revenge on her... He was spiting her, spiting himself, spiting God. He hoped there was a hell for him to go to and regretted his inability to believe in its existence.... it was even exciting in those early days to know that one was doing something bad and wrong. But there is in debauchery something so intrinsically dull, something so absolutely and hopelessly dismal, that it is only the rarest beings, gifted with much less than the usual amount of intelligence and much more than the usual intensity of appetite, who can go on actively enjoying a regular course of vice or continue actively to believe in its wickedness. Most habitual debauchees are debauchees not because they enjoy debauchery, but because they are uncomfortable when deprived of it. Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World
Forrás: Brave New World
Aldous Huxley könyv Point Counter Point
Forrás: Point Counter Point
Forrás: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience