By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSingle-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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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