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" What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. "
Aldous Huxley
Personal
War
Men
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" The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. "
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Always
Appearance
" Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. "
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" There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "
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Own
Self
" Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. "
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Most
Know
Ignorance
" A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. "
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Write
Good
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" Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. "
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Good Intentions
Yes
Paved
" Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. "
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Science
True
Come
" All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. "
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Strings
Power
Homemade
" After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "
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Expressing
Which
Silence
" Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. "
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Errors
Man
Succession
" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "
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Experience
Happens
Wisdom
" Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. "
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Divided
Against
Thought
" That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. "
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Human
Human Being
Equal
" Several excuses are always less convincing than one. "
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Convincing
Than
Less
" It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. "
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Men
Beauty
Discovery
" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "
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Powerful
Will
Mind
" Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. "
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Country
Office
Importance
" We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. "
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Participate
Look
Comedy
" What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. "
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Great
Determined
Feel
" De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. "
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Revolutionary
Sade
Consistent
" Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. "
Aldous Huxley
Science
Darkness
Nothing
" There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. "
Aldous Huxley
Sacrifice
Only
Knowledge
" The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. "
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More
Love
Almost
" Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. "
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Progress
Technological
Technology
" The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. "
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Other
Forget
Human
" Maybe this world is another planet's hell. "
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Hell
Another
World
" Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. "
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Life
Man
Power
" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
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Learn
Men
Important
" To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. "
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Man
Hence
Dogs
" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "
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Same
Name
Else