The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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