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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
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.
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Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.
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We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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They're old they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now But God doesn't change Men do though
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
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No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
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Science in itself is morally neutral it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
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No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
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Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
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Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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