The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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