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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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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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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
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An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
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