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To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city they merely inhabit it.
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Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
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Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!
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To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.
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The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
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