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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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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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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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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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The social body persists although the component cells may change.
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In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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