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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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