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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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