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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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The only consistent people are the dead
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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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I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
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All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
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The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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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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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
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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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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.
Aldous Huxley
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space you travel through time and thought as well.
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