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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

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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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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
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The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The more you know, the more you see
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
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