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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
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Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
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Pain was a fascinating horror
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A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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