Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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