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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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If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
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Let us be kinder to one another.
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The old idea that words possess magical powers is false but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .
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One of the great attractions of patriotism
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When the individual feels, the community reels.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
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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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All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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