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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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