Aldous Leonard Huxley

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"Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy."	Evil, Good, Lies
"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences."	Experience, Reading
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."	Happiness, Hope, Joy
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."	Death, Life, Nature
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."	Military, Technology, War
"The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea"	Age, Dictatorship, Education
"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough."	Intelligence, Men, Religion
"Experience teaches only the teachable."	Ability, Education, Experience
"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."	Destiny, Fate
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."	Music, Sin
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation…. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."	Art, Character, Habits
"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."	Ability, Excellence, Hope
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."	Age, Change, History
"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you."	Experience
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."	Intelligence
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."	Honesty, Knowledge, Truth
"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him."	Experience, Men
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."	Miscellaneous
"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface."	Anarchy, Chaos, Government
"Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing."	Death, Success
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