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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Our kingdom go is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics.
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Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.
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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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Let us be kinder to one another.
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