There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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 will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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