black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Arise City Famous Long Make Men Miserable People Personality Person So Worship
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Appear Elector Ignorance Nonsense Politician Powerful Propaganda World
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Being Centralized Concentrate Democracy Economic Expect Flourish Hardly Political Power Progressively Society
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Always Appeal Consolidate Dictator Patriotism Tyranny
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Agreeable Boredom Excessive Liberty Painful Rather Symbol Traveller True
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Found Intellectual Interesting More One Person Thing
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Communication Development Infinity Man More Neither Sitraction Totally
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Eclipse Thrill Truth Unexciting
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ignorance Know Vicble Want
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Act Addiction Desire Give Increase Less Satisfaction
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Also Art Fool Right Time
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme
No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Individual No Social Stability

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aldous Huxley Quotes