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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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