Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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