Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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