The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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