The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease...

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease...

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to...

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to...

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane...

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane...

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy

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...

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve...

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve...

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great...

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great...

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

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at...

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at...

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...

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of...

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of...

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away...

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away...