One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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