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Aldous Huxley

Virtues
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the ''higher life.'
3.0 · 37 votes · 28 reads
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Thought and Reason
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
4.6 · 12 votes · 172 reads
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Thought and Reason
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
5.0 · 58 votes · 128 reads
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Society
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
3.1 · 20 votes · 127 reads
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Various
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.
4.5 · 25 votes · 8 reads
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Feelings
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
4.4 · 19 votes · 146 reads
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Various
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
4.3 · 57 votes · 79 reads
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Various
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly c
3.6 · 10 votes · 173 reads
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Feelings
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, acc
3.3 · 21 votes · 186 reads
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Virtues
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.
3.1 · 64 votes · 134 reads
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Virtues
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
4.9 · 54 votes · 86 reads
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Countries
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that
3.3 · 40 votes · 101 reads
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Various
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
4.6 · 53 votes · 150 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
3.2 · 38 votes · 52 reads
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Various
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
4.5 · 52 votes · 149 reads
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Virtues
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
3.0 · 8 votes · 8 reads
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Various
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
4.2 · 18 votes · 174 reads
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Various
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
4.1 · 39 votes · 117 reads
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Art and Culture
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
3.3 · 63 votes · 108 reads
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Virtues
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
4.4 · 23 votes · 101 reads
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Nature
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
3.7 · 21 votes · 60 reads
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Society
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
4.7 · 11 votes · 150 reads
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Virtues
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
3.8 · 9 votes · 151 reads
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Thought and Reason
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
3.8 · 52 votes · 153 reads
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Various
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
3.8 · 34 votes · 133 reads
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Thought and Reason
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
5.0 · 29 votes · 122 reads
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Art and Culture
Your true traveler 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.
4.5 · 50 votes · 94 reads
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