There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDon’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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The more you know, the more you see
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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