A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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