To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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