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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#been #bit #concerned #embarrassing #end

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#god #knowledge #make #only #redemptive

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#common #decencies #efficiency #enemy #freedom

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#always #bed #before #being #clock

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#box #crime #great #hands #his

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#affect #based #because #candidate #comes