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What with making their way and...

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Can we unite against ourselves...

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

To make this trivial world sub...

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Parodies and caricatures are t...

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The consistent thinker, the co...

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Of the significant and pleasur...

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

A man may have strong humanita...

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Man is so intelligent that he ...

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I like being myself. Myself an...

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Who lives longer? The man who ...

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

It is possible to argue that t...

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The Savage interrupted him. '...

The Savage interrupted him. 'But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?' 'You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers,' said the Controller sarcastically. 'You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasonsЂ'that's phil

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Chronic remorse, as all the mo...

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

There was a thing called Heave...

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

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Ending is better than mending....

Ending is better than mending.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The more stitches, the less ri...

The more stitches, the less riches.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

No social stability without in...

No social stability without individual stability.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Armaments, universal debt, and...

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The soul of wit may become the...

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitra

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Actual happiness always looks ...

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

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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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....