Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery man’s memory is his private literature.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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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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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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