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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

English writer

Lived from: 1894 - 1963

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1894 Died: 22 november 1963

  • It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
  • Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
  • Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
  • All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
  • The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
  • All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
  • The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
  • Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
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  • I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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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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  • The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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