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An English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts.Here are some famous quotes by Aldous Huxley.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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An old codger rampant and still learning.
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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To his dog every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
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Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.
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Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
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Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
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Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
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The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.
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The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.
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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.
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At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.
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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?
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The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth.
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The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
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If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
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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 and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.
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To us the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.