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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
Fathers
Sons
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Aldous Huxley
Science
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
Pleasure
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
Pleasure
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
Progress
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
Men
Being
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
History
Men
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
Patriotism
Feeling
Nation
Wishes
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
Power
Gentlemen
Idealism
Will
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
Change
World
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley
Losing
Obscurity
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley
Experience
Men
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Aldous Huxley
Murder
Victims