No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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