The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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If 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.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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