The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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