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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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