A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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