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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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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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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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Dedicated to all those who say: I don't have time for analytics or I don't understand analytics.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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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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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
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Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
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Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth I paid too.
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We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
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Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.
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