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Aldous Huxley Truth

Aldous Huxley | truth

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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Aldous Huxley Truth

Aldous Huxley | truth

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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Aldous Huxley Truth

Aldous Huxley | truth

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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Aldous Huxley travel

Aldous Huxley | travel

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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Aldous Huxley travel

Aldous Huxley | travel

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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Aldous Huxley Time

Aldous Huxley | time

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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Aldous Huxley Time

Aldous Huxley | time

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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Aldous Huxley technology

Aldous Huxley | technology

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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Aldous Huxley strength

Aldous Huxley | strength

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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Aldous Huxley science

Aldous Huxley | science

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

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