The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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