The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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