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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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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 more you know, the more you see
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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