Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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