An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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