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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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  • We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
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  • We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
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  • We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
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  • We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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  • We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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  • We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
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  • We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
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  • We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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  • What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
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  • What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
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  • What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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  • What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
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  • When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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  • Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
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  • Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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  • Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?
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  • Words are good servants but bad masters.
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  • Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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  • Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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