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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

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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
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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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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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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Happiness is never grand.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
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