Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.
[Silence]
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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
[Evenings]
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
[Technology]
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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 all men are equal is a proposition 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 that history has to teach.
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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.
[Blessed]
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The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
[Advertising]
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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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 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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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.
[Simplicity]
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
[Literature]
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