QUOTES by Aldous Huxley
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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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It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
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We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
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I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
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Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
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Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.
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What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
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They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
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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?
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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.
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
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