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Aldous Huxley
7/1894-11/1963 (Age at death: 69)
74 Quotation(s) Total:
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. |
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Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted |
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. |
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. |
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing." |
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. |
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One Folk, One Realm, One Leader. Union with the unity of an insect swarm. Knowledgeless understanding of nonsense and diabolism. And then the newsreel camera had cut back to the serried ranks, the swastikas, the brass bands, the yelling hypnotist on the rostrum. And here once again, in the glare of his inner light, was the brown insectlike column, marching endlessly to the tunes of this rococo horror-music. Onward Nazi soldiers, onward Christian ... |
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. |
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. |
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Religion is, among many other things, a system of education, by means of which human beings may train themselves, first to make desirable changes in their own personalities and, at one remove, in society, and, in the second place, to heighten consciousness and so establish more adequate relations between themselves". |
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Religion is, among many other things, a system of education, by means of which human beings may train themselves, first to make desirable changes in their own personalities and, at one remove, in society, and, in the second place, to heighten consciousness and so establish more adequate relations between themselves". |
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure |
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Success-- "the bitch goddess success," in william James' phrase-- demands strange sacrifices from those who worship her. |
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means |
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. |
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach |
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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 propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human |
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The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. |
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency |
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