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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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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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A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
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The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being as we are, so we know.
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Let us be kinder to one another.
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Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
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I am I, and I wish I weren't.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside they're on the premises, all the time.
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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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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.
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For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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