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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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Science in itself is morally neutral it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
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Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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