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No social stability without individual stability.
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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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
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Nothing short of everything will really do.
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One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
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Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
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No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
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I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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