Aldous Leonard Huxley

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"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."	Ability, Adversity, Difficulty
"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
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."	Music, Sin
"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."	Art, Evil, Experience
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."	Death, Life, Nature
"Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing."	Death, Success
"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him."	Experience, Men
"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you."	Experience
"Experience teaches only the teachable."	Ability, Education, Experience
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."	Intelligence
"Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy."	Evil, Good, Lies
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."	Men, Politics, Power
"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."	Destiny, Fate, Honesty
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."	Miscellaneous
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."	Men, Monarchy
"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
"Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today."	Time
"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
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."	Ability, Education, School
"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture."	Excellence, Knowledge, Wisdom
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