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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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