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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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The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.
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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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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
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Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
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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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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
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Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
Aldous Huxley
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.
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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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