People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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.
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