Fuck Yeah Aldous Huxley

"Há um único recanto do universo que podemos ter certeza de melhorar: o nosso próprio eu."

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:36:27 -0300

“Há um único recanto do universo que podemos ter certeza de melhorar: o nosso próprio...

tierney922: “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:58:41 -0300

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” - Happy Birthday Aldous Huxley

thrifthrill: Children’s Book The Crows of Pearblossom By Aldous...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:57:34 -0300

thrifthrill:

Children’s Book

The Crows of Pearblossom

By Aldous Huxley

1967

Paid $4.00

fully-booked: “All that happens means something; nothing you...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:58:26 -0300

fully-booked:

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.” —Aldous Huxley (Taken with Instagram)

Photo

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:57:16 -0300

"Se uma pessoa é diferente, é fatal que se torne solitária."

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:58:20 -0300

“Se uma pessoa é diferente, é fatal que se torne solitária.” - Admirável Mundo Novo (via...

typographme: Here & Now

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:00:15 -0300

typographme:

Here & Now

"[He] Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the..."

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:59:50 -0300

“[He] Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all...

arsvivendi: Happy 118th Birthday, Aldous Huxley!

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:00:00 -0300

arsvivendi:

Happy 118th Birthday, Aldous Huxley!

"Ahí está la ironía de nuestro destino: tener sentimientos shakesperianos y -a menos que tengamos la..."

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:55:57 -0300

“Ahí está la ironía de nuestro destino: tener sentimientos shakesperianos y -a menos que...

i12bent: Much like J.D. Salinger, Aldous Huxley was an adherent...

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:58:26 -0300

i12bent:

Much like J.D. Salinger, Aldous Huxley was an adherent of Vedantic faith. In fact, together with Gerald Heard, Christopher Isherwood, and other followers he was initiated by the Swami Prabhavananda and was taught meditation and spiritual practices…

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.” ― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

Photo: Bassano, September 1931 - vintage print (NPG, London)

"As one living the life of reason, Jacobson objected to owning things. One so easily became the slave..."

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:56:59 -0300

“As one living the life of reason, Jacobson objected to owning things. One so easily became...

theonlyhankinla: “I wanted to change the world. But I have...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:00:18 -0300

theonlyhankinla:

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1894. Huxley is best known for Brave New World, his 1932 novel about a utopian society. The title is taken from a Shakespeare quote from The Tempest when Miranda says, “O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in’t.” Huxley wrote Brave New World Revisited as well. Just before his death the novel Island was publishe, a book that could be called the final book of a trilogy, with a story that is the complete opposite of Brave New World. All of his books are available at your local library or a local bookstore.

Huxley also worked in Hollywood quite a lot. He wrote the screenplay for the 1943 version of Jane Eyre starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles as well as the 1940 Greer Garson version of Pride and Prejudice.

There’s a crazy good website of Huxley’s work including full PDF versions of the books mentioned above. So don’t be shy, be Brave…go investigate & learn more about the author of one of the best books written in the 20th century.

"I continued to look at the flowers, and in their living light I seemed to detect the qualitative..."

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:59:20 -0300

“I continued to look at the flowers, and in their living light I seemed to detect the...

lafillelhistoire: Alice in Wonderland was released 61 years ago...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:13:50 -0300

lafillelhistoire:

Alice in Wonderland was released 61 years ago today- which was also Aldous Huxley’s 57th birthday.

Coincidence? I think not.

(And happy birthday, Aldous Huxley)

sonicbloom11: The Atlantic: Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley: A...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:53:07 -0300

sonicbloom11:

The Atlantic:

Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley: A Rare, Prophetic 1958 Interview

Aldous Huxley—author of the classic Brave New World, little-known children’s book wordsmith, staple of Carl Sagan’s reading list—would have been 118 today. To celebrate his mind and his legacy, here is a rare 1958 conversation with Mike Wallace—the same masterful interviewer who also offered rare glimpses into the minds of Salvador Dalí and Ayn Rand—in which Huxley predicts the “fictional world of horror” depicted in Brave New World is just around the corner for humanity. He explains how overpopulation is among the greatest threats to our freedom, admonishes against the effects of advertising on children, and, more than a century before Occupy Wall Street, outlines how global economic destabilization will incite widespread social unrest.

It’s extremely important, here and now, to start thinking about these problems—not to let ourselves be taken by surprise by the new advances of technology.

[…]

We can foresee, and we can do a great deal to forestall. After all, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Wallace reads a passage on American political campaigns from Huxley’s Brave New World(originally written under the title Enemies of Freedom) that rings with remarkable, and remarkably unsettling, timeliness:

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere; political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

maauadht: Tal vez no los reconozcas, tal vez sí, o tal vez solo...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:00:06 -0300

maauadht:

Tal vez no los reconozcas, tal vez sí, o tal vez solo a un par, pero lo que muy probablemente te estés preguntando es qué hacen Stanley Kubrick, Carl G. Jung, Aldous Huxley y Mick Jagger en una foto juntos y la respuesta es muy sencilla: todos ellos comparten cumpleaños el 26 de julio. Y como en Maauad Hand Tailored nos encanta celebrar a todos lo iconos que de una manera u otra ha contribuido a que este mundo esté lleno de cosas que queramos explorar, entender, leer, ver y escuchar aquí te dejamos a estos genios en su ramo a manera de un pequeño tributo.

-MHT Staff

woohoo-party-time: Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley!(7/26/1894 –...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:44:10 -0300

woohoo-party-time:

Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley!
(7/26/1894 – 11/22/1963)

collectedheroes: Happy Birthday Aldous!

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:50:51 -0300

collectedheroes:

Happy Birthday Aldous!

amandaonwriting: Happy Birthday Aldous Huxley! Aldous...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:54:44 -0300

amandaonwriting:

Happy Birthday Aldous Huxley!

Aldous Huxley, author of the classic Brave New World, would have been 118 today.

Huxley was born 26 July 1894, and died 22 November 1963