The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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