Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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