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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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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time the Gray Life.
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There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.
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Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
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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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A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
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