Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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?
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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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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The more you know, the more you see
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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