To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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