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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Certain Improve One Only Orner Own Self Universe
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Being Come Know Love Mind Shall Stillness Wisdom
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Know Mad Make Shall Truth
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Accept Almost Boredom Come Philosophical Pleasure
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

How Intoxicate People Really Themselves Work
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Correspondingly Demishes Economic Freedom Increase Political Sexual Tend
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Almost Being Capacity Grant Human Infinite Most Take Thing
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Country Discover Everyone Other Travel Wrong
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Been Fear Manipulate Many never
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Dictatorship Enthusiasm Good Loss Never One Reson Seem Thoroughly
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Agreed Chronic Moralist Most Remorse Sentiment Undesirable
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Coma Death Full Ignore Last Longer Moment Morphia Shuffle Squirted Yourself
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Anarchy Common Decencies Efficiency Enemy Freedom Life Second Total Wors Worst
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
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Gadgetry Glitterm Hyprotize Man Own
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Gamble never Win
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Act Addiction Desire Give Increase Less Satisfaction
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Anything Like Pierce Properly Read Through Use Word Xray
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Cause Kill Name never People Publican Secret Sinner Tell Torture
Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Behave Essentially Good Naturally Sane Try
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Every Man Literature Memory Private
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ignorance Know Vicble Want
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Come Drug Honey Hug Miss Till

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