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| Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| 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 | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| 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. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
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| The only completely consistent people are the dead. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| 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? | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| 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. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Experience teaches only the teachable. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
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| Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
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| The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| 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. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Every man's memory is his private literature. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
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| Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| 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. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
