If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHe accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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