The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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