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Aldous Leonard Huxley ( AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

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Aldous Huxley, Island

Quotes from Aldous Huxley

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

—Aldous Huxley in The Doors of Perception

solitude alone

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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reality facts

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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body feelings

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

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perception equality

Dream in a pragmatic way.

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idealism dream pragmatism

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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gratitude ability

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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happiness pursuit

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can, and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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morality regret repentance remore

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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church nature mountains father

To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

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destruction morality psychology indignation

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

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intellect sex interest

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.

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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

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experience

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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learning experience teachable

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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music

Books

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