„Existuje jediný koutek ve vesmíru, který můžeš s jistotou zlepšit a to jsi ty sám.“
Varianta: Je tu jenom jeden kout vesmíru, který můžeš určitě vylepšovat a to je ten vlastní.
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.
„Existuje jediný koutek ve vesmíru, který můžeš s jistotou zlepšit a to jsi ty sám.“
Varianta: Je tu jenom jeden kout vesmíru, který můžeš určitě vylepšovat a to je ten vlastní.
„Hodní a spořádaní lidé nemají ani potuchy o tom, jaký je svět ve skutečnosti.“
Konec civilizace, Ostrov
Rozhovor divocha a Mustafy Monda
Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Konec civilizace, kap. 17, str. 172
Širší citát:
"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
Z rozhovoru divocha s Bernardem Marxem v rezervaci
Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Konec civilizace, kap. 8, str. 100
"The Idea of Equality"
Zdroj: Proper Studies (1927)
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey, (1926)
Zdroj: https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/214/mode/2up?q=To+travel+is+to+discover+that+everyone+is+wrong Part II: Malaya
“No social stability without individual stability.”
Zdroj: Brave New World
“Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of.”
Zdroj: Eyeless in Gaza
“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
Zdroj: Brave New World
Zdroj: Jesting Pilate
"Sermons in Cats the musical"
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
“Experience teaches only the teachable…”
Tragedy and the Whole Truth
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
Those Barren Leaves (1925)
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956); later in Collected Essays (1959), p. 293
Zdroj: Ends and Means
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
Zdroj: Brave New World
As quoted in Huston Smith, "Aldous Huxley--A Tribute," The Psychedelic Review, (1964) Vol I, No.3, (Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue), p. 264-5
Zdroj: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”
Zdroj: Brave New World