Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The more you know, the more you see
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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