life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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 travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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