“To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.” — Aldous Huxley, “Spinoza’s Worm,” Do What You Will
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 that history has to teach.” — Aldous Huxley, “A Case of Voluntary Ignorance.” Esquire. October 1956
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“’The trouble with fiction,’ said John Rivers, ‘is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.’” — Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess
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“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.” — Aldous Huxley, Do What You Will
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies