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 HUXLEYThe goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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