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• My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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  Nature, Father, Climbing

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• It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

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  Past, Matter, Remember

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• Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

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  Way, Wells

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

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  Prayer, Done, Lord

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• Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

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  Dream, Reality, Self

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

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  Believe, Government, Hypnosis

  Letter to George Orwell. "Letters of Aldous Huxley". Book edited by Grover Smith, 1969.

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• The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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  Worst Enemy, Common Decency, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

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  Years, People, Majority

  Interview with Raymond Fraser, George Wickes, The Paris Review, Issue 23, 1960.

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• Nothing short of everything will really do.

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  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• In real life there is no such person as the average man.

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  Real, Men, Average

  "Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948".

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• The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

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  Lying, Civilization, Waiting

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• All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

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  Personality, Political, Principles

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

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  Sublime, Half, World

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• Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

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  Stupid, Class, May

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

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  Smile, Men, Hamlet And Ophelia

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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  Truth, Literature, Platitudes

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

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  War, Vocabulary, Lasts

  "Pacifism and Philosophy" by Aldous Huxley, 1936.

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• The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

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  Reality, Rivers, Fiction

  Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs (2013). “The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.

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  Spiritual, Real, Love Is

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• To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

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  Appreciation, Book, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1959). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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  50th Birthday, Age, Genius

  Aldous Huxley (1924). “Young Archimedes: and other stories”, H. Doran

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• The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

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  Thinking, Evil, World

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

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  Religious, Men, Unique

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 3 (p. 21), 1958.

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