English - Novelist | July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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