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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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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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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 more you know, the more you see
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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