To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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