The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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 Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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