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Aldous Huxley
7/1894-11/1963 (Age at death: 69)
74 Quotation(s) Total:
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception |
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They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are |
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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large -- this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and specially to the intellectual." |
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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large — this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual. |
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. |
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. |
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. -- |
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. -- |
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death. |
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. |
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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. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, ... |
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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. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, ... |
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences |
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. |
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