Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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