The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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