The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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 pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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 survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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