The 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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As 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.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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