Quotes by Aldous Huxley

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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
 
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
 
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
 
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
 
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
 
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder."
 
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
 
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