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Every man's memory is his private literature.

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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We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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Our kingdom go is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.
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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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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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