The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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