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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYReality 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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