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Aldous Huxley Quotes
English critic & novelist
| “ | Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Vedanta for the Western World, 1945 | ” |
| “ | Death? It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Eyeless in Gaza (1936) | ” |
| “ | Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
"Texts and Pretexts", 1932 | ” |
| “ | Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
"Proper Studies", 1927 | ” |
| “ | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
"Music at Night", 1931 | ” |
| “ | There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. | ” |
| “ | The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. | ” |
| “ | That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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| “ | Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. | ” |
| “ | Maybe this world is another planet's hell. | ” |
| “ | If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military. | ” |
| “ | Experience teaches only the teachable.
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| “ | At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. | ” |
| “ | An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. | ” |
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