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 HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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It’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.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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