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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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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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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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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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Pain was a fascinating horror
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space an understerilized prison darkness, disease, and smells.
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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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In real life there is no such person as the average man.
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
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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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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows The wound is mortal and is mine.
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Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou') the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.
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