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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhen the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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