black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Aldous Huxley

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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Condemned Fact Human Being Individual Instrument Most Stock Victim
No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Individual No Social Stability
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Armament Country Debt Obsolescence People Pillar Plan Prosperity Three Universal Western
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Beare Being Country Get Insane Integrate Lynch Rational
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Country Discover Everyone Other Travel Wrong
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Generation How Liberate Love Make Mass Next Question Rather
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Human Make One People Propagandist Purpose Set
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Illusion Must Seriously Word
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Cease Exist Face Ignore
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Cast Conversely Cost Fear Love
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Discontent Hole Infect Peg Round Social Square System Tend Through
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Man Mas Murder Organizing Species Unique
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Act Being Capable Great Human Irritation Seem Variety Way
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aldous Huxley Quotes