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The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
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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Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
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Science in itself is morally neutral it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.
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To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
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Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
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In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
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Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.
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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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