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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
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Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
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Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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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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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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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
Aldous Huxley
