Aldous Huxley
English writer
Lived from: 1894 - 1963
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 26 july 1894 Died: 22 november 1963
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable.
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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
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The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
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The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
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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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The more you know, the more you see.
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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The only consistent people are the dead.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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