In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIn all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt’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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf 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 HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDemocracy 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 HUXLEYMan is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberties are not given, they are taken.
ALDOUS HUXLEY