Tag: Aldous Huxley
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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous Huxley
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous Huxley
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
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I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley
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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley