You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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