That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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