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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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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
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Consciousness is only possible through change change is only possible through movement.
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...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.
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To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
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Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
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If you don't gamble, you'll never win.
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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being as we are, so we know.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.
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Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
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Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
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Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.
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