Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDon’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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