Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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