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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYGood is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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