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Quotes from Themes and Variations — Aldous Huxley

1894–1963 England

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Themes and Variations (1950)

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

Themes and Variations (1950)

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.

Themes and Variations (1950)

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Themes and Variations (1950)

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