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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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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The old idea that words possess magical powers is false but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.
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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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