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Schriftsteller, Kulturkritiker, Gesellschafts- und Zukunftsromane (England, 1894 - 1963).

Aldous Leonard Huxley · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Aldous Leonard Huxley wäre heute 130 Jahre, 8 Monate, 7 Tage oder 47.732 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.07.1894 in Godalming
Gestorben am 22.11.1963 in Hollywood
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Rites, sacraments, and ceremonials are valuable to the extent that they remind those who take part in them of the true Nature of Things.

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• Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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• Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

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• So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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• Someone who understands how to read, possesses the key to great deeds, to undreamed of possibilities.

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• Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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• Sport and games can be a complete and true substitute for war and murder.

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• That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

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• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons history has to teach.

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• The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

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• The proper study of mankind is books.

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• The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon.

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• The smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

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• The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

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• The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

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• The word "prayer" is applied to at least four distinct procedures: petition, intercession, adoration, and contemplation.

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• Then brim the bowl with atrabilious liquor! We'll pledge our Empire vast across the flood: For Blood, as all men know, than Water's thicker, But Water's wider, thank the Lord, than Blood.

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• There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.

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• There are not enough bon mots in existence to provide any industrious conversationalist with a new stock for every occasion.

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• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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