The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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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.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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