Quote #16

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

More from Aldous Huxley

  1. The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
  2. Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or …
  3. Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
  4. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
  5. To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
  6. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
  7. Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the mean…
  8. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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