The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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