"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
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Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was a British author and philosopher renowned for his profound exploration of dystopian themes and the human condition. Best known for his groundbreaking novel "Brave New World," Huxley delved into issues of technology, society, and the individual's place within it. Born into an intellectually accomplished family, he was influenced by the socio-political upheavals of his time, which shaped his insightful critiques of modern civilization. Huxley’s legacy endures as a warning and a reflection on the complexities of progress and ethics.
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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."
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"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
Aldous Huxley"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
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"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
Aldous Huxley"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
Aldous Huxley"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
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"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
Aldous Huxley"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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"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 influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
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