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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

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
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The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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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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The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
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The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
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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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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Our kingdom go is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.
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If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.
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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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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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