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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.


Aldous Huxley

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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
HERODOTUS Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.
HERODOTUS No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in wa...
CROESUS OF LYDIA In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
CROESUS Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON SR. The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons b...
HERODOTUS Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 But sons who are mor...
JOHN CALVIN Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—
ALDOUS HUXLEY Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend...
VIKRANT PARSAI It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Good fathers make good sons
LILLIAN HELLMAN I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
JANE D. HULL Because so many functions are for fathers and sons, this is for fathers to bring them closer to thei...
EUNICE TUCKER Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way t...
BRAYLON EDWARDS Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers
HERBERT KAUFMAN As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s...
IRIS CHANG They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son.
T.K. NALIAKA This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido acondicionado para creerlas.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
ALDOUS HUXLEY They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
CLEO MOORE We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and ...
MELINA MARCHETTA That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero a...
MARKUS ZUSAK Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But...
ALEKSANDER KAASNIEWSKI my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen B...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Some years later, after Scott’s death, we came my father and I to the Field Museum, a long dismal ...
WALKER PERCY But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duti...
DOUGLAS WILSON Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking alo...
ANNE MICHAELS At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
CHINESE PROVERB As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the tru...
TONNY K. BROWN Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fath...
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")
A.E. COPPARD What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of telev...
NEIL POSTMAN He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'
HERODOTUS With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on...
BRAD PITT I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or ...
CAMERON CONAWAY I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
JOHN GREEN Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who...
LYNN AUSTIN Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face ...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin...
ELIE WIESEL Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you ...
DICK MILLER I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and ...
RYAN ZINKE I am often stunned and charmed by the simple brilliance of what children say. But you have to be wil...
MIKE FARRELL If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all do...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have a...
ANTHONY T. HANSON To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you ...
MATTHEW DAVIS One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it beco...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing i...
BRENT GENTRY A father never gives up on a son, not really, no matter how poorly he behaves at times or how many s...
ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from th...
HELMUT SCHMIDT The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one spo...
MICHAEL LEWIS Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Un...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at th...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize...
MARK MAISH A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw ...
ARTHUR MILLER Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens th...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he w...
MARK SLOUKA He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right."
"Who is Mark?"
"A silly little boy who ...
HILARY MANTEL I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly h...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to ac...
ELIE WIESEL We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They...
ELIZABETH LONSDORF We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place...
BIBLE I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
TALIB KWELI Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to...
EPICTETUS Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they ...
GEORGE A. MOORE How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish overca...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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