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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Civilisation
Eaten
Sick

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From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
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Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.
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Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.
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I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
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Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.
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Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.
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Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
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Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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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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But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.
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... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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