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«A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
believer, determinist, lunch, pessimistic
«Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance»
«Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abused, affected, at present, cathartic, cathartics, dramatic, dramatic art, exercising, exhibition, hypnotic, rarest, The Practice, untouched
«One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Cheating,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
attractions, bullied, Bullies, bully, bullying, fulfills, profoundly, vicariously
«Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're peirced.»
«How appallingly thorough these Germans always managed to be, how emphatic! In sex no less than in war - in scholarship, in science. Diving deeper than anyone else and coming up muddier.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
appallingly, diving, emphatic, Germans, managed, muddier, scholarship, thorough
«A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Competence
| Keywords:
full-face, imply, portraitist, profile, profiles
«Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.»
«Dream in a pragmatic way.»
«There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving-by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
discovers, formula, method, paying, paying attention, thereby
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