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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure as a monster he was superb.
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
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Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
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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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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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Happiness is never grand.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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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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Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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If you don't gamble, you'll never win.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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