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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
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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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There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high in reality, very low.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside they're on the premises, all the time.
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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society Providence takes its cue from men.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.
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