The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFor 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
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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