life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Ignore 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?
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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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