That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous HuxleyI had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning for this world is not concerned exclusively with the problem of pure metaphysics; he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to...For myself...the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.
Aldous HuxleyWhat 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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
Aldous HuxleyDefined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.
Aldous HuxleyThought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
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The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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