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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
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Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
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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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We can't allow science to undo its own good work.
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We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
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The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
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There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
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No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
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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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In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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