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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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Pain was a fascinating horror
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
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Consciousness is only possible through change change is only possible through movement.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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