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Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
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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I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
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Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!
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