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«The traveller'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.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Humanity,
Travel,
World
| Keywords:
actor, know nothing, restaurants, satisfying, spectator, The Restaurant, trains, traveller
«The inspiring talker produces zeal, whose intensity depends not on the rationality of what is said or the goodness of the cause that is being advocated, but solely on the propagandist's skill in using words in an exciting way»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
advocated, inspiring, intensity, propagandist, propagandists, rationality, solely, talker, zeal
«The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
black sheep, deserts, imply, lovingly, The Brotherhood, worldly
«Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.»
«Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
cutting, cutting off, intensely, mystic, mystics, obstacle, passively, stillness, The Hunger, thirst, uncontrolled
«One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
bewilder, bewildering, convenience, conveniences, creating, fatal, human existence, monsters, organization, organizations, organization man, social organization, The Victims, tragic, victims
«The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
40th birthday,
Enthusiasm,
Genius
| Keywords:
losing, old age
«My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Family,
Fathers
| Keywords:
churchgoing, equivalent
«The great end of life is not knowledge but action.»
«We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
achieving, apparent, Delicious, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, grisly, hitherto, induced, inducing, intoxication, Morning after, successes, triumphant, unimproved
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