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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.”

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley: Idézetek angolul

“For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.”

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Aldous Huxley

“Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.”

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“Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.”

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Forrás: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions”

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Forrás: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“… we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv The Doors of Perception

Forrás: The Doors of Perception

“To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

Forrás: Brave New World

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Island

Forrás: Island (1962)

“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Point Counter Point

Forrás: Point Counter Point

“That is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

Forrás: Brave New World

“When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Crome Yellow

Forrás: Crome Yellow

“O brave new world that has such people in it.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

Forrás: Brave New World

“But every one belongs to every one else”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

Forrás: Brave New World

“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Eyeless in Gaza

Forrás: Eyeless in Gaza

“Isn't there something in living dangerously?”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

Forrás: Brave New World

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 17
Forrás: Brave New World (1932)

“You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World

Forrás: Brave New World

“The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Ends and Means

Ends and Means (1937)

“In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World Revisited

Forrás: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 12 (p. 113)

“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies—the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distraction.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World Revisited

Forrás: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 4 (pp. 35-36)

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

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Wanted, A New Pleasure
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

“First Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugues, a bore; first differential equations, sheer torture. But training changes the nature of our spiritual experiences. In due course, contact with an obscurely beautiful poem, an elaborate piece of counterpoint or of mathematical reasoning, causes us to feel direct intuitions of beauty and significance. It is the same in the moral world.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Ends and Means

Ends and Means (1937)

“The proper study of mankind is books.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Crome Yellow

Forrás: Crome Yellow (1921), Ch. XXVIII

“Of course I base my characters partly on the people I know—one can’t escape it—but fictional characters are oversimplified; they’re much less complex than the people one knows.”

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Interview http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4698/the-art-of-fiction-no-24-aldous-huxley, The Paris Review (1960)

“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”

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Aldous Huxley könyv Brave New World Revisited

Forrás: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 5 (p. 42)

“The Beatific Vision, Sat Chit Ananda, Being-Awareness-Bliss-for the first time I understood, not on the verbal level, not by inchoate hints or at a distance, but precisely and completely what those prodigious syllables referred to. And then I remembered a passage I had read in one of Suzuki's essays. “What is the Dharma-Body of the Buddha?” ('“the Dharma-Body of the Buddha” is another way of saying Mind, Suchness, the Void, the Godhead.) The question is asked in a Zen monastery by an earnest and bewildered novice. And with the prompt irrelevance of one of the Marx Brothers, the Master answers, “The hedge at the bottom of the garden.” “And the man who realizes this truth,” the novice dubiously inquires, “what, may I ask, is he?””

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Aldous Huxley könyv The Doors of Perception

Groucho gives him a whack over the shoulders with his staff and answers, “A golden-haired lion.”
The Doors of Perception (1954)

“In regard to man’s final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead. The degree to which this unitive knowledge is achieved here on earth determines the degree to which it will be enjoyed in the posthumous state. Contemplation of truth is the end, action the means.”

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Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)

“There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.”

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“One and Many,” p. 3
Do What You Will (1928)