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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
Aldous Huxley
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.
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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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If you don't gamble, you'll never win.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
Aldous Huxley
Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
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A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.
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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being as we are, so we know.
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To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
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The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
Aldous Huxley
It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.
Aldous Huxley
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
Aldous Huxley
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
Aldous Huxley
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
Aldous Huxley
