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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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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
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We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
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Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
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...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.
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