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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
– Aldous Huxley

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  2. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity – Aldous Huxley
  3. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born. – Aldous Huxley
  4. She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn’t equal good and it certainly doesn’t equal sane. – Carrie Jones
  5. Liberties aren’t given, they are taken. – Aldous Huxley
  6. 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
  7. But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind. – Aldous Huxley
  8. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an ?????? and is adjusted to his society. – Aldous Huxley
  9. Every man’s memory is his private literature. – Aldous Huxley
  10. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. – Aldous Huxley
  11. Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent. – Miguel de Unamuno
  12. How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us! – D Martyn LloydJones
  13. Like the ‘good’ characters in literature, the sane don’t have any memorable lines. – Adam Phillips Going Sane
  14. What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  15. Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. – Aristotle
  16. … science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. – Aldous Huxley
  17. What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning? – Aldous Huxley
  18. I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. – Aldous Huxley
  19. Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. – Aldous Huxley
  20. My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. – Aldous Huxley
  21. Nature is powerless to put asunder. – Aldous Huxley
  22. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley
  23. Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time. – Aldous Huxley
  24. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley
  25. There was something called Christianity. – Aldous Huxley
  26. Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner. – Aldous Huxley
  27. It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. – Aldous Huxley
  28. If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely. – Aldous Huxley
  29. Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. – Aldous Huxley
  30. You pays your money and you takes your choice. – Aldous Huxley
  31. Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. – Aldous Huxley
  32. Stability,- insisted the Controller, -œstability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this. – Aldous Huxley
  33. Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep -“ – Aldous Huxley
  34. For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. – Aldous Huxley
  35. One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. – Aldous Huxley
  36. Experience teaches only the teachable. – Aldous Huxley
  37. A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously. – Aldous Huxley
  38. De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley
  39. Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt. – Aldous Huxley
  40. That is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you’ve got to do. – Aldous Huxley

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