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"37 Aldous Huxley Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 26 July 1894. Died: 22 November 1963 | Writer | Philosopher |

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Word Use Read Pierce
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

You Universe Can Your
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Silence Come Music After
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You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
Shall Truth Make You
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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

World Hell Another Maybe
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Mind Original More Toward
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Know Want Passion Feel
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

But Found Sure Only
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Has Who Person More
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Known Thing Between Door
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Carry Spirit Child Secret
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience What Man Happen
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Equal Sane Time That
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Great But Truth About
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Learn How Free Past
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Keep Truth The Wheel
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Somebody Pain People Can
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Start People Them With
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Long Men Will Them
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Sink Same Sane Boat
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Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Change Only Possible Through
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
Hug Drug Love Kiss
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Can Have First Has
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal Class New Call
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Judge World Know That
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Planet Shall Long Live
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Back Culture You Still
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Cease Exist Facts Ignored
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Countries Discover Everyone Other
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Backwards Efficient Means Merely
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Know Mad Make Shall
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Intelligence Man Organs Servitude
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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every Literature Man Memory
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Age Charm Consist Different
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Among Considered Equivalent Father
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Aldous Huxley Quotes & Sayings