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~ Aldous Huxley Quote
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
Every man's memory is his private literature.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
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.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
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.'
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
An old codger, rampant, and still learning.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
~ Aldous Huxley Quote