Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Sad

“The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.”

Men Self Forgiveness

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Philosophical

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.”

People Believe Philosophy

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Sad

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”

Wish Chaos

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Courageous

“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

Happiness Boring

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Sad

“Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”

Religion Chastity Unnatural

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Grieving

“Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.”

Fear Atheism

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Wise

“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.”

Mind Wisdom

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Wise

“Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.”

Science Wise Wisdom

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Philosophical

“It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.”

World Imagination Realizing

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Courageous

“Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.”

War Two Hands

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Courageous

“The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”

World Morning Lambs

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Melancholic

“Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.”

Kissing Generations Sunset

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