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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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