Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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 nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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