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Aldous Huxley


English
July 26, 1894
Novelist
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.


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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.


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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.


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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.


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Tags: Truth You Know
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.


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Tags: Who Man Over
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.


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Tags: Father Walk Among
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.


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Tags: Like Only Afraid
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.


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Tags: Power Will Over
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.


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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.


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Tags: Things Most Human
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
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Tags: Men War About
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.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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Tags: God Happiness You
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
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Tags: Good Like Who
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Tags: Freedom Your Than
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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Tags: Power Who Life
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
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Tags: About Always Been
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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