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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
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There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
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We live together, we act on, and react to one another but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
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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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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.
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Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded I ate civilization.
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Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
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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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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
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At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
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Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
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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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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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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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