Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhich is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhen the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEYConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEY