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181 " 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
182 " We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "
183 " Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. "
― Aldous Huxley , Complete Essays, Vol. III: 1930-1935
184 " All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. "
― Aldous Huxley , Island
185 " Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. "
186 " A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. "
― Aldous Huxley ,
187 " To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. "
188 " It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "
189 " Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall. "
― Aldous Huxley , The Doors of Perception
190 " incongruous "
― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World
191 " Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is blind to the fact of his own enormous selfishness. He is one of those invalids who make use of their real or imagined sufferings to get their own way. "
― Aldous Huxley , Jacob's Hands: A Fable
192 " When you want anything badly, you always have to make some sacrifices. "
193 " From his angle, the curtain seems to form itself into a shrouded, wavering figure, indescribably terrifying in its very indistinctness. Something waiting, hovering on the threshold of the visible world. Some half-embodied fear gradually assuming a hideous outer form. "
194 " „Hitler´s dictatorship“, he said, „differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical developement, a dicttorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man....Earlier dictators needed highly qualified assistants even at the lowest level – men who could think and act independently. The totalirian system in the period of modern technical development can dispense with such men; thanks to modern methods of communication, i tis possible to mechanize the lower leadership. As a result of this there has arisen the new type of uncritical recipient of orders.“ (Albert Speer) "
― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World Revisited
195 " Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. "
196 " Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. "
197 " For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written. "
198 " But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. "
199 " An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. "
200 " But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. "