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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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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
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And no wonder for the new technique of subliminal projection, as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals it cannot be mass-produced.
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All that happens means something nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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When the individual feels, the community reels.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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