Tag: Aldous Huxley
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous Huxley
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God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous Huxley
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One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
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Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
Aldous Huxley
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
Aldous Huxley
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Aldous Huxley
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Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley