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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
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.
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At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
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For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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If you want to write, keep cats.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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I am I, and I wish I weren't.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
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War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
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All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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The old idea that words possess magical powers is false but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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