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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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An irrelevance, and your life's altered.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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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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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
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