Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
ALDOUS HUXLEYConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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 third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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 pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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