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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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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Every good painter invents a new way of painting.
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Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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Everyone belongs to everyone else.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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