Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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