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Aldous Huxley -
“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.”2.
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”3.
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“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”4.
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“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.”5.
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”6.
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“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”7.
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”8.
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“The traveler'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.”9.
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“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.”10.
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“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”11.
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“A bad book is as much labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”12.
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“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going.”13.
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”14.
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“Facts are ventriloquists' 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 nonsense.”15.
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“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”16.
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“If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.”17.
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”18.
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“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”19.
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“Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.”20.
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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.”21.
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“Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.”22.
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”23.
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“There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.”24.
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“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay — in solid cash — the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”25.
Aldous Huxley -
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
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