By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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