English - Novelist | July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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