There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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