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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Love casts out fear but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
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Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
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If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
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The social body persists although the component cells may change.
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The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
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