Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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.
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