Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark...

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark...

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory,...

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory,...

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the...

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the...

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's...

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's...

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and...

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and...

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion...

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion...