Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Thoughtful

“The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.”

Men Eye Views

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Funny

“In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.”

Years Dog Doubt

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Philosophical

“Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.”

Way Mind

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Philosophical

“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”

Men Mistake

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Spiritual

“Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.”

Looks Innocence Thrive

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Courageous

“And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.”

Play Age Technique

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Hopeful

“Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be”

Goal Ought

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Sad

“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”

Men Yoga

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Philosophical

“Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.”

Passion Civilization Settings

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Regretful

“If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.”

Would Be Liberty Individual Differences

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Sad

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”

Looks Misery Brave New World

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Funny

“Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.”

Beautiful Army Power

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