Tag: Aldous Huxley
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Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous Huxley
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
Aldous Huxley
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous Huxley
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Aldous Huxley
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous Huxley
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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Aldous Huxley