The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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 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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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For 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
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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