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Those who believe that they a...

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

There's only one effectively ...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

De Sade is the one completely...

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Thought must be divided again...

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

You should hurry up and acqui...

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

There is something curiously ...

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Writers write to influence th...

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Uncontrolled, the hunger and ...

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The charm of history and its ...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Europe is so well gardened th...

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The author of the Iliad is ei...

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Speed, it seems to me, provid...

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

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Wherever the choice has had t...

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Human beings act in a great v...

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

... the greater part of the p...

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

This Power Elite directly emp...

This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country?s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The spiritual journey does no...

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most...

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The real hopeless victims of ...

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

which is better - to be born ...

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....