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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.
By Aldous Huxley
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
By Aldous Huxley
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
By Aldous Huxley
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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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.
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I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
By Aldous Huxley
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
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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.
By Aldous Huxley
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
By Aldous Huxley
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
By Aldous Huxley