At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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