Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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