Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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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.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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