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• Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

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  Fear, Liberty, Politics

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

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  Time, Intuition, Duration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

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  Reality, Common Sense, Brain

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• One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

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  Thinking, Two, Self

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• At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.

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  Sympathy, Pain, Eye

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• The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

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  Men, Vitality, Ethics

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

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  World, Preoccupation, Regard

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• Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

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  Dirty, Blessed, Acceptance

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• One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

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  Names, Triumph, Prejudice

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• ...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

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  Dream, Growing Up, Future

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

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  Philosophy, Distance, Home

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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  Moral Behavior, Numbers, Quality

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

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  Mean, Civilization, Class

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

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  Dog, Rain, Pet

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• ... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

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  Thinking, Oneself

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

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  Majority, Logic, Reason

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• ...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

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  Two, Sorrow, Unnecessary

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• In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

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  Country, Dope, People

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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  Bears, Silent, Witness

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

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  Mean, Attention, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

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  Ideas, World, Obscure

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.22, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Mistake, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• "Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.

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  Thinking, Self, Feelings

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