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Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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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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Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
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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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The only truly consistent are the dead.
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...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
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If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.
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No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
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To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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