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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
English critic & novelist [more author details]

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.: Aldous Huxley
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.: Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.: Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.: Aldous Huxley
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If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.: Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.: Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.: Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.: Aldous Huxley
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.: Aldous Huxley
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.: Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.: Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.: Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.: Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
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Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.: Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.: Aldous Huxley, Vedanta for the Western World, 1945

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