“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupid…”

“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”

— Aldous Huxley

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Title: Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley
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Context

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952)

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Huxley, Aldous. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

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