Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery ceiling reached becomes a floor.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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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.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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