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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Category: Body Author: Aldous Huxley
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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Category: Body Author: Aldous Huxley
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
Category: Civilization Author: Aldous Huxley
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Category: Conformity Author: Aldous Huxley
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Category: Dogs Author: Aldous Huxley
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Category: Excuses Author: Aldous Huxley
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Category: Food Author: Aldous Huxley
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
Category: Health Author: Aldous Huxley
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: Aldous Huxley
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Category: Humorous Quotations Author: Aldous Huxley
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Aldous Huxley
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Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Aldous Huxley
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
Category: Ignorance Author: Aldous Huxley
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
Category: Intelligence Author: Aldous Huxley
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Category: Language Author: Aldous Huxley
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
Category: Literature Author: Aldous Huxley
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Every man\'s memory is his private literature.
Category: Memory Author: Aldous Huxley
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Category: Music Author: Aldous Huxley
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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.
Category: Philosophical Author: Aldous Huxley
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
Category: Philosophy Author: Aldous Huxley
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