To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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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