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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

„Ó ty nový krásný světe,“ opakoval. „Ó ty nový krásný světe, který takové máš obyvatele! Poleťme hned.“
„Někdy se vskutku vyjadřujete neobyčejně divně,“ pravil Bernard a díval se upřeně na mladíka ve zmateném údivu. „A vůbec, neměl byste raději počkat, až ten nový svět opravdu uvidíte?“

Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace

Z rozhovoru divocha s Bernardem Marxem v rezervaci
Konec civilizace
Zdroj: Konec civilizace, kap. 8, str. 100

„Skvělá je pravda, ale lepší je z praktického hlediska, pomlčení o pravdě.“

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„Lékařská věda udělala takové pokroky, že na světě teď již vskutku není zdravého člověka.“

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Aldous Huxley: Citáty anglicky

“"Is it agreeable?" somebody asked.
"Neither agreeable nor disagreeable," I answered. "it just is." Istigkeit - wasn't that the word Meister Eckhart liked to use? "Is-ness." The Being of Platonic philosophy - except that Plato seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming and identifying it with the mathematical abstraction of the Idea. He could never, poor fellow, have seen a bunch of flowers shining with their own inner light and all but quivering under the pressure of the significance with which they were charged; could never have perceived that what rose and iris and carnation so intensely signified was nothing more, and nothing less, than what they were - a transience that was yet eternal life, a perpetual perishing that was at the same time pure Being, a bundle of minute, unique particulars in which, by some unspeakable and yet self-evident paradox, was to be seen the divine source of all existence.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha The Doors of Perception

page 4-5
The Doors of Perception (1954)

“Propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with enlightened self-interest appeals to reason by means of logical arguments based upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth. Propaganda in favor of action dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false, garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids logical argument and seeks to influence its victims by the mere repetition of catchwords, by the furious denunciation of foreign or domestic scapegoats, and by cunningly associating the lower passions with the highest ideals, so that atrocities come to be perpetrated in the name of God and the most cynical kind of Realpolitik is treated as a matter of religious principle and patriotic duty.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 4 (p. 33)

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” said Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 4 (p. 34)

“At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 12 (p. 116)

“The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 12)

“Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.”

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Interview, Time magazine, December 1957

“One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Ends and Means

Ends and Means (1937)

“Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Time Must Have a Stop

Time Must Have a Stop (1944)

“In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha The Doors of Perception

The Doors of Perception (1954)

“The spark within is akin to the Divine Ground. By identifying ourselves with the first we can come to unitive knowledge of the second. These empirical facts of the spiritual life have been variously rationalized in terms of the theologies of the various religions. The Hindus categorically affirm that Thou art That — that the indwelling Atman is the same as Brahman. For orthodox Christianity there is not an identity between the spark and God. Union of the human spirit with God takes place — union so complete that the word deification is applied to it; but it is not the union of identical substances. According to Christian theology, the saint is “deified,” not because Atman is Brahman, but because God has assimilated the purified human spirit in to the divine substance by an act of grace. Islamic theology seems to make a similar distinction. The Sufi, Mansur, was executed for giving to the words “union” and “deification” the literal meaning which they bear in the Hindu tradition. For our present purposes, however, the significant fact is that these words are actually used by Christians and Mohammedans to describe the empirical facts of metaphysical realization by means of direct, super-rational intuition.”

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Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)

“How significant is the enormous heightening, under mescalin, of the perception of color! … Man's highly developed color sense is a biological luxury—inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal. … Mescalin raises all colors to a higher power and makes the percipient aware of innumerable fine shades of difference, to which, at ordinary times, he is completely blind. It would seem that, for Mind at Large, the so-called secondary characters of things are primary.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha The Doors of Perception

describing his experiment with mescaline, pp. 26-27
The Doors of Perception (1954)

“Christian philosophers have found no difficulty in justifying imperialism, war, the capitalist system, the use of torture, the censorship of the press and ecclesiastical tyrannies of every sort, from the tyranny of Rome to the tyrannies of Geneva and New England.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Ends and Means

Ends and Means (1937)

“I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.”

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"Sermons in Cats"
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”

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No reliable source makes this quote disputed.
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“Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 19)

“No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Ostrov

Island (1962)

“Suso has even left a diagrammatic picture of the relations subsisting between Godhead, triune God and creatures. In this very curious and interesting drawing a chain of manifestation connects the mysterious symbol of the Divine Ground with the three Persons of the Trinity, and the Trinity in turn is connected in a descending scale with angels and human beings. These last, as the drawing vividly shows, may make one of two choices. They can either live the life of the outer man, the life of the separative selfhood; in which case they are lost (for, in the words of the Theologia Germanica, “nothing burns in hell but the self”). Or else they can identify themselves with the inner man, in which case it becomes possible for them, as Suso shows, to ascend again, through unitive knowledge, to the Trinity and even, beyond the Trinity, to the ultimate Unity of the Divine Ground.”

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Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)

“From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences—the experiences of sense.”

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“One and Many,” p. 5–6
Do What You Will (1928)

“Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 20)

“Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.”

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" Note on Dogma http://books.google.com/books?id=gcfPAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;Those+who+believe+that+they+are+exclusively+in+the+right+are+generally+those+who+achieve+something&quot;" <br class="br">Proper Studies (1927)

“Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha The Doors of Perception

The Doors of Perception (1954)

“At the core of the Perennial Philosophy we find four fundamental doctrines.
First: the phenomenal world of matter and of individualized consciousness — the world of things and animals and men and even gods — is the manifestation of a Divine Ground within which all partial realities have their being, and apart from which they would be non-existent.
Second: human beings are capable not merely of knowing about the Divine Ground by inference; they can also realize its existence by a direct intuition, superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known.
Third: man possesses a double nature, a phenomenal ego and an eternal Self, which is the inner man, the spirit, the spark of divinity within the soul. It is possible for a man, if he so desires, to identify himself with the spirit and therefore with the Divine Ground, which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.
Fourth: man’s life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.”

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Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)

“Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.”

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Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

Zdroj: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 14)