Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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