A 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more you know, the more you see
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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