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Experience teaches only the teachable.

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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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.
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Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
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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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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The social body persists although the component cells may change.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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