Liberties are not given, they are taken.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberties are not given, they are taken.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDon’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIn 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHe accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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 HUXLEY