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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
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All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.
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The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The social body persists although the component cells may change.
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I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
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