The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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