If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYReality 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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