There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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 nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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 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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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