Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.
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What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.
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It often happens that reforms merely have the effect of transferring the undesirable tendencies of individuals from one channel to another channel. An old outlet for some particular wickedness is closed; but a new outlet is opened. The wickedness is not abolished; it is merely provided with a different set of opportunities for self-expression.
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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
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One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.
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It's 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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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
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Out psychological experiences are all equally facts.
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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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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'Is it agreeable?' somebody asked.
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When will you women understand that one isn’t insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won’t allow one to have.