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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
Hell
World
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
History
Men
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Infinite
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley
Ignorance
Want
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley
Life
Effort
Thinking
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley
Soul
Fate
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
Father
Mountains
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
Country
Dignity
Importance
Office
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley
Work
Feeling
Man
Sense
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Aldous Huxley
Thought
Forget
World
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous Huxley
Life
Art
Artist
Protest
Want
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
Truth
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Aldous Huxley
Science
Darkness
Nothing
World
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley
Excuses
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley
Men
Will
Worship