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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
— Aldous Leonard 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.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
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