Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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