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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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  • People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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  • Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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  • Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
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  • Proverbs are alsvys platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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  • Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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  • Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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  • Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
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  • Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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  • Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the ''higher life.''
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  • Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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  • Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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  • Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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  • Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.
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  • Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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  • So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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  • Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
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  • Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
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  • Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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  • Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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  • Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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