But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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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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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