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The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.
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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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One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
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We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
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I am I, and I wish I weren't.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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