The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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