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The only truly consistent are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]
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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.
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Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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