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The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

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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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War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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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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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good what you make with them ought to be good too.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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Pain was a fascinating horror
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
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Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
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Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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