"If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons,……" — Aldous Huxley
"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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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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