Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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The more you know, the more you see
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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