Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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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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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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.
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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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