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Aldous Leonard Huxley byl anglický spisovatel, který většinu svého dospělého života prožil v USA. Nejvíce proslul svými romány, nicméně psal též eseje, poezii, povídky, cestopisy a filmové scénáře a vymýšlel příběhy.

✵ 26. červenec 1894 – 22. listopad 1963   •   Další jména Aldous L. Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley
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„Cudnost - nejhorší sexuální perverze.“

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„It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.“

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"It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered."
Zdroj: Island

Aldous Huxley: Citáty anglicky

“The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.”

Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 6 (p. 47)

“I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation — the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.”

Aldous Huxley kniha The Doors of Perception

Pages 160-61
The Doors of Perception (1954)

“The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far?”

Aldous Huxley kniha The Doors of Perception

how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern."
The Doors of Perception (1954)

“I'm interested in truth, I like science. But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. … It's curious … to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. They seemed to imagine that it could go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasise from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. Still, in spite of everything, unrestricted scientific resarch was still permitted. People still went on talking about truth and beauty as though they were sovereign goods. Right up to the time of the Nine Years' War. That made them change their tune all right. What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That was when science first began to be controlled — after the Nine Years' War. People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then. Anything for a quiet life. We've gone on controlling ever since. It hasn't been very good for truth, of course. But it's been very good for happiness. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.”

Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace

Zdroj: Brave New World (1932), Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 16

“'Our kingdom go' is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is of self, the less there is of God.”

Aldous Huxley kniha The Perennial Philosophy

Zdroj: The Perennial Philosophy (1945), Chapter VI - Mortification, Non-Attachment, Right Livelihood

“Rational and kindly behavior tends to produce good results and these results remain good even when the behavior which produced them was itself produced by a pill.”

Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

"Brave New World Revisited" (1956), in Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1977), p. 99

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