That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be a fool at the right time is also an art.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Ignore 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?
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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