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Aldous Huxley

Born: July 26, 1894

Died: November 22, 1963

Nationality: English

Occupation: Novelist, writer

Biography: Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

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Aldous Huxley

“Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.”

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“The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.”

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“Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.”

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“The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.”

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“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”

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“Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.”

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“How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who ever plays the geometer.”

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Source/Notes: Music at Night (1931)

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“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”

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“A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.”

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“The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.”

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“If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,' he had said, 'you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a present specimen of Intelligence, Military.”

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Source/Notes: Point Counter Point (1928), Chapter 7

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“The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.”

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Source/Notes: Ends and Means (1937), Chapter 1

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“I looked down by chance, and went on passionately staring by choice, at my own crossed legs. Those folds in the trousers—what a labyrinth of endlessly significant complexity! And the texture of the gray flannel—how rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous!”

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Source/Notes: Describing a discovery he had made using mescaline - The Doors of Perception (1954)

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“If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.”

- Aldous Huxley

Source/Notes: As quoted in: J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

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