Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous HuxleyIt's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.
Aldous HuxleyMots clés art experience creativity visionary psychedelics
Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –
Aldous HuxleyMots clés poem villiers-de-l-isle-adam
Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.
Aldous HuxleyMots clés villiers-de-l-isle-adam
You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.
Aldous HuxleyThe world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.
Aldous HuxleyMots clés poetry by-the-fire
Each one of us, of course," the Controller meditatively continued, "goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking enormous.
Aldous HuxleyAma gözyaşları gereklidir. Othello'nun söylediklerini hatırlamıyor musunuz? Böyle bir huzur gelecekse her fırtınanın ardından essin rüzgarlar ta ki ölümü uyandırana dek.
Aldous HuxleyMots clés cesur-yeni-dünya
It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose— well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes—make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible.
Aldous HuxleyMots clés mustapha-mond
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous HuxleyMots clés change-history
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