So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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