QUOTES by Aldous Huxley
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
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Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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