"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and……" — Aldous Huxley
"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things."
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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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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…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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