If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWords can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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 people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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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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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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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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