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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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