Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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