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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was a British writer and philosopher, best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World" (1932). He was born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England. Huxley's work often explored the interplay between science, technology, and society. more Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was a British writer and philosopher, best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World" (1932). He was born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England. Huxley's work often explored the interplay between science, technology, and society. In "The Doors of Perception" (1954), he detailed his experiences with the psychedelic drug mescaline, contributing to the study of human consciousness. Another notable work, "Island" (1962), served as a utopian counterpoint to "Brave New World." Huxley also wrote essays and critiques on various social, political, and philosophical issues. He passed away on November 22, 1963, in Los Angeles, California, the same day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. less

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"A belief in hell is the only one, among numerous metaphysical beliefs, which has always seemed to me to be entirely certain."
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"Ending is better than mending."
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"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
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"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
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"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. 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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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
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"The planetization of consciousness."
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"There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair."
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"Dream in a pragmatic way"
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"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look"
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"After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars - one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children"
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"
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"Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and beholder"
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"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence"
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