Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.Aldous Huxley
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Aldous Huxley
So long as men worship dictators, Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley
Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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