Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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.
[Art]
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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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.
[Silence]
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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
[Life]
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg-- eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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The traveler'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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The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
[Talent]
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