Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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