Aldous Huxley słynne cytaty
Aldous Huxley Cytaty o ludziach
„Dla swego psa każdy jest Napoleonem. To powód nieustającej popularności psów.”
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. (ang.)
Źródło: Wielka księga mądrości, wybór Jacek i Tomasz Ilga
Aldous Huxley Cytaty o świecie
„Chciałem zmienić świat. Doszedłem jednak do wniosku, że mogę jedynie zmieniać samego siebie.”
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. (ang.)
Aldous Huxley cytaty
„Fakty nie przestają istnieć z powodu ich ignorowania.”
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (ang.)
Źródło: Proper studies: the proper study of mankind is man, Chatto & Windus, 1957.
„Tajemnica szczęścia i cnoty tkwi w tym, by lubić to, co musi się robić.”
Źródło: „Przekrój”, wydania 27–38, Krakowskie Wydawnictwo Prasowe, 1998.
„Gdy jednostka czuje, wspólnota szwankuje.”
When the individual feels, the community reels. (ang.)
slogan hipnopedyczny.
Nowy wspaniały świat (1932)
„Nigdy tak wielu nie było manipulowanych przez tak nielicznych.”
Źródło: Ryszard Kapuściński, Lapidarium, tom 1, Czytelnik, 1990, s. 153.
„Śmierć to jedyna rzecz, której nie udało się nam całkowicie zwulgaryzować.”
Death, it’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing. (ang.)
Źródło: Eyeless in Gaza, Amereon Ltd, 1975, s. 311.
„Jeżeli chce się żyć każdą nadarzającą się chwilą, trzeba umierać dla każdej innej chwili.”
The Genius And The Goddess
Aldous Huxley: Cytaty po angielsku
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
Źródło: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)
“Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I'm in a coma.”
Źródło: Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”
Źródło: Brave New World
“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”
Źródło: Brave New World
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
Źródło: Brave New World
The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 16
Źródło: Brave New World (1932)
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
Wariant: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Źródło: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3<!-- p. 50 -->
Źródło: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
Źródło: Brave New World
“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”
Źródło: Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 17
Kontekst: 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.
“Can you say something about nothing?”
Źródło: Brave New World
Źródło: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience