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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Gadgetry
Hypnotized
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This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
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A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.
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The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.
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In real life there is no such person as the average man.
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Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.
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And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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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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Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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