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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Actually Among Art Because Feel Feels Finest Know Like Little Little While Make Nobly Only Other Possible Precious Reasons Think Us While Works

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

~Aldous Huxley

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

~Aldous Huxley

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Against Any Before Come Divided Itself Knowledge Must Thought

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

~Aldous Huxley

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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Always Bottom Influence More Preachers Readers Themselves Write Writers

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Consistent History Revolutionary Sade

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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

~Aldous Huxley

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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

~Aldous Huxley

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

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Always Charmed Disillusioned Fathers Rebellious Sons Which Wish

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 26th, 1894

Died: November 22nd, 1963

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