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Aldous Huxley
7/1894-11/1963 (Age at death: 69)



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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

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I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.

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I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.
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I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescalin or of any other drug, preared or in the future preparable, with the realization of the end and ultimate purpose of human life: enlightenment, the Beatific Vision. All I am suggesting is that the mescalin experience is what the Catholic theologians call ' a gratutituous grace,' not necessary to salvation but potentially helpful and to be accepted thankfully, if made ava...
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I can sympathize with people's pains but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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I can sympathize with people's pains but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Huxley, Aldous
PATRONS, GRANTS, FOUNDATIONS
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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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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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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-- in solid cash-- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-- in solid cash-- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-- in solid cash-- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

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If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

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In life, man proposes, God disposes.
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder

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Liberty, as we all know, cannout flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors

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