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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

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  • Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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  • Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
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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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  • Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
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  • Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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  • Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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  • That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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  • That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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  • That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
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  • 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.
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  • The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
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  • The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
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  • The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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  • The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
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  • The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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  • The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.
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  • The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
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  • The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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  • The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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  • The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
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