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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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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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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.
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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
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Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
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Happiness is never grand.
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
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