So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIgnore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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