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?
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The more you know, the more you see
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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