If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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