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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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