Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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