An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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