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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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An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
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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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And no wonder for the new technique of subliminal projection, as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
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I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
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No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
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