Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYlife is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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