Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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