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.
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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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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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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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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