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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly. (Aldous Huxley)
I like being myself. Myself and nasty. View quote
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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. View quote
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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes. View quote
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. View quote
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. View quote
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There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men. View quote
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A love of nature keeps no factories busy. View quote
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The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? - how far? - how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. View quote
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One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time. View quote
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It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled. (Aldous Huxley)
When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she-or he, of course, as the case may be-must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering. View quote
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. View quote
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Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality. View quote
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. View quote
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. View quote
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man. View quote
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Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. View quote
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The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. View quote
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We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. View quote
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life. (Aldous Huxley)
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. View quote
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It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction. View quote
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The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious-it makes little or no difference. View quote
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write. View quote
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