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Certain Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh…
- For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was…
- At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having…
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin…
- It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
- Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have…
- The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing…
- I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown…
- There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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