If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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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 goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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.
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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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