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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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