If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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