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Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963) ''Philosopher, Writer see also: ''Brave New World Verified Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Proper Studies (1927) Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Texts and Pretexts (1932) Death �is the only thing we haven't� succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Eyeless in Gaza (1936) Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Essay "Distractions I" in Christopher Isherwood's Vedanta for the Western World (1945) Attributed After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas. Experience teaches only the teachable. Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. (1937) There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
see also: ''Brave New World
Verified Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Proper Studies (1927) Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Texts and Pretexts (1932) Death �is the only thing we haven't� succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Eyeless in Gaza (1936) Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Essay "Distractions I" in Christopher Isherwood's Vedanta for the Western World (1945) Attributed After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas. Experience teaches only the teachable. Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. (1937) There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.