The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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