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

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Behavior Beings Human Human Beings Inverse Involved Moral Number Quality Ratio Varies

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: History Important Learn Lessons Men Most Much The Most Important

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Experience teaches only the teachable.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Experience Only Teaches

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Every Every Man Feeling Good Good Feeling Like Man Sense Work

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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Certain Circles Come Hallmark Kind Regarded Science Specialized True

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Effort Life Most Oneself Prevent Prolonged Thinking

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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.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Ambition Behaving Beings Belief Death Doomed Every Frustration Hands Hell Human Human Beings Knowledge Majority More Never Rumor Skeleton Than Though Were

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Approaches Errors Man Succession Through Truth Unattainable

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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Best Cynical Doing Excuse Intelligent Intolerable Man Nothing Realism Situation

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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Another Beings Either Hang Human Human Beings Like Really Shown Themselves Were

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 26th, 1894

Died: November 22nd, 1963

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