Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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