He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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 people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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