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Aldous Huxley

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“Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”— Aldous Huxley
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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 rumor.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Dream in a pragmatic way.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”— Aldous Huxley
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”— 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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”— Aldous Huxley
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“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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”— Aldous Huxley
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“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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley