So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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