All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIgnore 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?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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