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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for dome

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

Other quotes by Aldous Huxley

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the wills freedom after it. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Freedom
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Aldous Huxley
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all ones life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than try to be a little kinder. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Life
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Aldous Huxley
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Other Quotes from
Civilization
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Civilization

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. – Syrus

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Civilization

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

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Civilization

Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

Category:
Civilization

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The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. – Terri Guillemets

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An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. – Bryant H. McGill

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Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. – Demi Moore

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If youre lucky enough to be involved in a film thats about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile. – Eric Bana

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