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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
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
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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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For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.
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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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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
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It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
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But every one belongs to every one else
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Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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Science in itself is morally neutral it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
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The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Love casts out fear but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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