Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Regretful

“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 .”

Government Sides Anarchist

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Sad

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”

Heaven Alcohol Enormous Quantities

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Courageous

“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.”

People Suspicious

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Thoughtful

“[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.”

Soul Captains

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Spiritual

“The silent bear no witness against themselves.”

Bears Silent Witness

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Funny

“Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!”

Two Truth

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Wise

“Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.”

Mind Teaching

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Inspired

“This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.”

Liberty Growing Population

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Courageous

“Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system”

Men Origin Of Life Irrelevance

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Creative

“I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.”

Fun Responsibility Bullying

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Philosophical

“The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.”

Ideas Christian Perfect

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Spiritual

“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.”

Reality Animal Goal

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