Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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