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One of the great attractions of patriotism
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.
Aldous Huxley
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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Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded I ate civilization.
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Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.
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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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Let us be kinder to one another.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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 propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.
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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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War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
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For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.
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Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
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