You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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