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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
Children
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Remarkable
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Shams
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Ruthlessness
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But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
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Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
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Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
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If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals it cannot be mass-produced.
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The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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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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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society Providence takes its cue from men.
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[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
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I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
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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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