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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Aldous Huxley

Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Better Born Insane Intelligent One Society Stupid
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Anarchy Common Decencies Efficiency Enemy Freedom Life Second Total Wors Worst
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Been Believe Condition Them Thing
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Cage Exist Gilded Just Liberty World
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Always Bullying End Everyone Good Human Race Universal Wants
No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Individual No Social Stability
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Always Contrary Determine End Justify Mean Nature never Such Universe
All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

All Candidate Coach Look Money Need Sincere
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Abstraction All Consist Diabolical Human Being Last Propaganda Resort Substitute War
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Compassion Intelligence Live Long Nature Only Permitted Planer Shall Treat
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Even Floursihm Country Foot Know Liberty Near Permanently War
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Chance Children Exist Give Imaginem Anything Isolation
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well

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