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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
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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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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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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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
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All that happens means something nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
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