| The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Maybe this world is another planet's hell. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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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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- Aldous Huxley |
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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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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who "ever plays the geometer." |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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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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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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| Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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