Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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