„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.
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Aldous Huxley: Citáty o světě
„Hodní a spořádaní lidé nemají ani potuchy o tom, jaký je svět ve skutečnosti.“
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Konec civilizace, Ostrov
Aldous Huxley: Citáty o lidech
Aldous Huxley citáty a výroky
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Rozhovor divocha a Mustafy Monda
Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Konec civilizace, kap. 17, str. 172
Aldous Huxley kniha Ostrov
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
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Z rozhovoru divocha s Bernardem Marxem v rezervaci
Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Konec civilizace, kap. 8, str. 100
Aldous Huxley: Citáty anglicky
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited
Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)
“Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I'm in a coma.”
Zdroj: Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Brave New World
Aldous Huxley kniha The Doors of Perception
Page 159
The Doors of Perception (1954)
“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Brave New World
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Brave New World
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 16
Zdroj: Brave New World (1932)
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Varianta: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Zdroj: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3<!-- p. 50 -->
Zdroj: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Brave New World
“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Brave New World
Aldous Huxley kniha The Doors of Perception
Zdroj: The Doors of Perception
“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”
Aldous Huxley kniha Point Counter Point
Zdroj: Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 17
Kontext: 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.
Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Brave New World
Aldous Huxley kniha Point Counter Point
Zdroj: Point Counter Point
Zdroj: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
