Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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