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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou') the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
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I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.
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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
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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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Ending is better than mending.
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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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When the individual feels, the community reels.
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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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I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.
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The social body persists although the component cells may change.
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Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being as we are, so we know.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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