Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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