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
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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