If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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