For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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