Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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