Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBy thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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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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