Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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