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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.
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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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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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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
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For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
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