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Aldous Huxley Quotes

English - Novelist | July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Life Nature People Consistency Dead

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Excuses Always Than Less Convincing

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Truth You Always Personally Until

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Purpose People Forget Human Set

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Strength God Heart Soul Travel Man

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Most Chastity Sexual Unnatural

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Nature Father Walk Mountains Among

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed Pleasure Modern Genuinely

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Happiness People Hard Master Other

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Dreams Dream Way Pragmatic

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty Wine Worse Than Beholder

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Soul I Am Fate My Soul Captain Only

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