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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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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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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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