All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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