Experience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYlife is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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