"Morality is always the product of terror; its……" — Aldous Huxley
"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."
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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley has 533 quotes on this site.
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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
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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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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in…
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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