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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.
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The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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