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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#intoxicate #people #really #see #themselves

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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#defined #doubt #fanatic #man #psychological

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #either #hang #human #human beings

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#born to be #cut #hanged #make #murder

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#me #modern #pleasure #provides #seems

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#auditors #bottom #influence #more #preachers

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#am #anyone #care #cheapest #freedom

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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