Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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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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