People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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