Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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