Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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 survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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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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