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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The 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.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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The more you know, the more you see
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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