„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
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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
Z rozhovoru divocha s Bernardem Marxem v rezervaci
Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Konec civilizace, kap. 8, str. 100
Zdroj: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Zdroj: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“… one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”
Zdroj: Crome Yellow
“To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”
Zdroj: Brave New World
“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”
Zdroj: Point Counter Point
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do.”
Zdroj: Brave New World
“O brave new world that has such people in it.”
Zdroj: Brave New World
“But every one belongs to every one else”
Zdroj: Brave New World
“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”
Zdroj: Eyeless in Gaza
“Isn't there something in living dangerously?”
Zdroj: Brave New World
“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.”
The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 17
Zdroj: Brave New World (1932)
“In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.”
Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 12 (p. 113)
Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 4 (pp. 35-36)
“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
Wanted, A New Pleasure
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
“The proper study of mankind is books.”
Zdroj: Crome Yellow (1921), Ch. XXVIII
Interview http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4698/the-art-of-fiction-no-24-aldous-huxley, The Paris Review (1960)
“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”
Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 5 (p. 42)
Groucho gives him a whack over the shoulders with his staff and answers, “A golden-haired lion.”
The Doors of Perception (1954)
Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)
“There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.”
“One and Many,” p. 3
Do What You Will (1928)