That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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