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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
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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...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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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 dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
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To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
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Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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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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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
Aldous Huxley
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
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We live together, we act on, and react to one another but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
Aldous Huxley
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.
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