All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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