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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.
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Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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Can you say something about nothing?
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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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Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society Providence takes its cue from men.
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I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
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God: a gaseous vertebrate.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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