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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.
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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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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
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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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If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
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I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
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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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