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Aldous Huxley

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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.


— Aldous Huxley


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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.


— Aldous Huxley


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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.


— Aldous Huxley


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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.


— Aldous Huxley


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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.


— Aldous Huxley


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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.


— Aldous Huxley


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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.


— Aldous Huxley


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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.


— Aldous Huxley


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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.


— Aldous Huxley


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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.


— Aldous Huxley


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About Aldous Huxley

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Did you know about Aldous Huxley?

He also served on the editorial board with IAldous Huxleyrwood Heard and playwright John van Druten from 1951 through 1962. From these he put forward some warnings in his writings and talks. In 1944 Huxley wrote the introduction to the "Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God" translated by Swami Prabhavanada and Christopher IAldous Huxleyrwood which was publiAldous Huxleyd by The Vedanta Society of Southern California.

He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and publiAldous Huxleyd short stories poetry travel writing film stories and scripts. Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

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