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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Wheels
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The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.
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The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
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No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
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A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
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Let us be kinder to one another.
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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
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Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.
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What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
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One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows The wound is mortal and is mine.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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