Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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