Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBy thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more you know, the more you see
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be a fool at the right time is also an art.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhich is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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