Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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