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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
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If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Animal Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with I, me, mine, that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours it is also everybody else's.
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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They're old they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now But God doesn't change Men do though
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This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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