If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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