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Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
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...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
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If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
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The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
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The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
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What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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The only consistent people are the dead
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
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One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
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