Aldous Huxley Quotes About Rationality

Quotes about: Rationality

• The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Mind, Religion

• Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

• Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taste, Facts, Mass

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.57, Random House

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