If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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