- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aldous Huxley Quotes
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- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience teaches only the teachable.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
- Geniuses
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Child-Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
- Proverbs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
- Cease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Infinite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
- Nov 07, 2020
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- Bottom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
- Bullying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
- Hang
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- Nov 07, 2020
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
- Cut
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man's memory is his private literature.
- Expressing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Gods
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- Nov 07, 2020
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
- Clarity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proper study of mankind is books.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dream in a pragmatic way.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
- Appearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
- Convincing
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- Nov 07, 2020