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For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
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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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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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...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.
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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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