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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
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Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.
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And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
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Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children sometimes like the noise of lambs.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
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And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
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The only truly consistent are the dead.
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Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
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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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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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