All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYRound pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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