Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido acondicionado para creerlas.
Aldous Huxley
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Porque, a veces, a las personas les ocurren cosas que no están preparadas para afrontar.
SUZANNE COLLINS Las cosas suelen resultar mejor de lo que uno espera.
JAMES HERRIOT Son ingeniosas de verdad, las cosas que inventan los muggles para arreglárselas sin magia.
J.K. ROWLING Las cosas cambian. Y los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene para nadie.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN El problema es que los humanos tienen el don de elegir precisamente las cosas que son peores para el...
J.K. ROWLING Este es un homenaje a los locos. A los inadaptados. A los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. A las ficha...
WALTER ISAACSON Probablemente, sólo en un mundo de ciegos serán las cosas lo que realmente son, dijo el médico. Y...
JOSé SARAMAGO Utiliza el nombre correcto para las cosas. El miedo a un nombre aumenta el miedo a la cosa que se no...
J.K. ROWLING Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY Para los que sufrimos de amores, la mejor cura a nuestro corazon roto siempre a sido la mas simple.....
CARLOS BARRIOS A veces es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas y que tomar patatas fritas con tu madre sea suficien...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Uno siempre responde con su vida entera a las preguntas mas importantes. No importa lo que diga, no ...
SáNDOR MáRAI El pasado siempre tiene importancia. No hay que olvidar las cosas que hiciste en el pasado, porque s...
CASSANDRA CLARE Yo no busco en las personas ni la bondad ni la buena educación siquiera..., aunque creo que esto ú...
CARMEN LAFORET Dicho del Profeta
Soy como un hombre que ha encendido una hoguera y todas las cosas vivientes h...
IDRIES SHAH Tres Anillos para los Reyes Elfos bajo el cielo. Siete para los Señores Enanos en palacios de piedr...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Pero como siempre, las cosas nunca salen como uno desea. Es más, el mundo parecía conocer a la per...
HARUKI MURAKAMI What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN Dijo que las cosas no podían seguir por ese camino. Éramos todos hombres sensatos, hombres razonab...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN En las plantaciones, los trabajadores casan hasta con un pedazo de palo si viste polleras. Para tene...
JORGE AMADO El primer paso, indispensable para lograr las cosas que desea obtener en la vida, es el siguiente: d...
JACK CANFIELD —¿Por qué sigues creyendo en Dios? ¿No estás enfadada con Él por todas las cosas malas que te...
SYLVAIN REYNARD Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino.
JOHN GREEN La cosa pública es un desastre -voceaba, a la menor oportunidad, don Ramón- Cada uno mira demasiad...
MIGUEL DELIBES La verdad no es realmente más extraña que la ficción, digan lo que digan. La mayoria de la veces ...
STEPHEN KING Sabes que siempre voy a estar aquí para animarte. Estoy tan orgullosa de ti que quiero que sepas qu...
LARA A. SERODIO Vlasta me reprocha que soy un soñador. Parece que no veo las cosas tal como son. No, veo las cosas ...
MILAN KUNDERA En suma, desde pequeño, mi relación con las palabras, con la escritura, no se diferencia de mi rel...
JULIO CORTáZAR 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 Creo que lo que importas esta determinado por las cosas que te importan a ti. Importas tanto como la...
JOHN GREEN Cuando pensaba en él muriendo, que admito que no ha sido muchas veces, siempre pensaba en lo que di...
JOHN GREEN Puedes cerrar los ojos a las cosas que no quieres ver, pero no puedes cerrar el corazón a las cosas...
TABITHA SUZUMA Puedes cerrar los ojos a las cosas que no quieres ver, pero no puedes cerrar tu corazón a las cosas...
TABITHA SUZUMA My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH Cuando no se pueden decir las cosas, las miradas se cargan de palabras.
EDUARDO SACHERI Las cosas simples son las más extraordinarias, y sólo los sabios consiguen verlas.
PAULO COELHO Que la grandeza requiere sufrimiento ha sido una lección difícil de aprender.
KRISTIN CASHORE Las palabras no siempre pueden hacer el trabajo para el que las necesitamos. La música existe para ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Hay cuatro cosas viejas que son buenas: viejos amigos, para conversar; leña vieja, para calentarse;...
ÉMILE FAGUET Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Olvidar es un lujo, nadie vendrá a llevarse las cosas que quisiera no haber visto, las cosas que qu...
CAT PATRICK Era ese llanto que sobreviene cuando uno se siente opacamente desgraciado. Cuando alguien se siente ...
MARIO BENEDETTI Hacía tiempo que había aprendido a gozar de las cosas sencillas, cosas que no se podían comprar.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Ha sido un ejemplo singular de la estupidez humana creer durante mucho tiempo que los judíos consti...
VOLTAIRE But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY ...cuando alguien muere, pensamos que ya se ha hecho tarde para cualquier cosa, para todo —más a�...
JAVIER MARíAS Las grandes cosas, los grandes momentos, dejan a veces grandes vacios; las pequeñas cosas, los pequ...
ED HERNANDEZ Así pues, tanto las sociedades como los grupos humanos más pequeños pueden tomar decisiones catas...
JARED DIAMOND For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—
ALDOUS HUXLEY …porque somos como elles; porque, bem como elles, nos persuadimos de que, varrendo todos os vestig...
ALEXANDRE HERCULANO Todo el mundo está enloquecido por la manía de poseer cosas. Todas las cosas débiles y frágiles ...
JOHN GREEN Espero curarme de ti en unos días. Debo dejar de fumarte, de beberte, de pensarte. Es posible. Sigu...
JAIME SABINES –Watanabe, ¿puedes explicarme la diferencia entre el condicional simple y el condicional perfecto...
HARUKI MURAKAMI 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 Planearlo, supongo. No lo sé. Las cosas nunca son como esperamos que sean.
JOHN GREEN Escribir en un diario es una experiencia muy extraña para alguien como yo. No solo porque nunca ant...
ANNE FRANK Mira a todos a tu alrededor y ve lo que hemos hecho de nosotros y de eso considerado como victoria n...
CLARICE LISPECTOR Es difícil mantener todo igual cuando las mismas cosas lucen y se sienten diferentes.
SIMONE ELKELES Para que los pasos no me lloren,
para que las palabras no me sangren:
canto.
OTTO RENé CASTILLO En la amistad como en el amor se es más feliz por las cosas que se ignoran que por las que se saben...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Haber sido amado tan profundamente, aunque esa persona que nos amó no esté, nos deja para siempre ...
J.K. ROWLING Uno se puede encariñar de muchas cosas aparte del sexo pero es mejor si el sexo está presente de a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Ese algo más profundo y más secreto. Son como grietas dentro de ti. Como líneas defectuosas en la...
JOHN GREEN Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquiste...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Nada es más valioso que la risa. Se requiere de fuerza para reír y abandonarse a uno, para ser lig...
FRIDA KAHLO We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN Y es así como, una vez obtenida la esencia de su amor, ahora erijo grandes construcciones verbales,...
JACK KEROUAC - No creo, señor, que tenga usted derecho a darme órdenes simplemente porque es mayor que yo o por...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë La dicha es una cosa tan rara en este mundo, que el hombre no ha pensado en inventar palabras para e...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Puede perder cosas materiales pero nunca podrá perder su maestría, lo que se ha aprendido, la pers...
JACK CANFIELD As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG Oskar cumplía treinta y siete años, y acababa de abrir una botella de coñac. Sobre su escritorio ...
THOMAS KENEALLY Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado...
HERMANN HESSE Las mentes necesitan lo inusual, porque lo inusual tiene el poder de sacudir la mente!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN creen en Dios sólo porque ignoran que hace mucho tiempo que Dios ha dejado de creer en ellos.
MARIO BENEDETTI Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso.
(Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick)
PROVERB Los filósofos griegos tenían razón al decir que la guerra era la madre de todas las cosas.
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE ¿Cómo pueden estas cosas mías parecerte burla, si portan la enseña de la fe que las sustenta?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE —Tú hablas sin palabras. Todos estamos siempre hablando sin palabras.
—¿Y para qué valen...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Nadie se forma en la cola de las tortillas para comprar pan
REGINA KURI It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR Desde que me convertí en el director de este colegio no ha pasado una semana sin que haya recibido ...
J.K. ROWLING It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN Ha sido evidentemente por aquello que llamamos responsabilidad que el primate se convirtió en human...
FERNANDO SILVA SANTISTEBAN La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínc...
CARMEN MARTíN GAITE De vez en cuando, uno debe liberar la mugre construida dentro de ellos para liberar sus emociones co...
SUZY KASSEM Cierra los ojos- me dijo- Voy a prometerte cosas y no quiero que veas lo mucho que las deseo.
ELíSABET BENAVENT Para qué esto y para qué lo otro, para qué el dinero, o un negocio y su urdimbre, para qué una c...
JAVIER MARíAS Todos somos lo mismo; todos remamos en la misma galera. En nuestras muchas reencarnaciones, hemos si...
BRIAN L. WEISS El mundo no existe sólo para mí. El porcentaje de cosas amargas que me sucedan no variará. Yo no ...
BANANA YOSHIMOTO Así, pues, le dije:
—Ya sabes, Tom, que no sirvo ni para limpiarte los zapatos. Pero no impo...
MARK TWAIN Le gustaba llevarme a pasear a orillas de lago, donde contemplábamos las olas rompiendo contra las ...
JOHN GREEN What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of telev...
NEIL POSTMAN No confíes en cosas que tengan la capacidad de pensar pero de las cuales no sepas dónde tienen el ...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pain was a fascinating horror
ALDOUS HUXLEY The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
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
Its the only thing we havent 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.
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