Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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