He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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