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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
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
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War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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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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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
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If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
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There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
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How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
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