An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The more you know, the more you see
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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.
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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.
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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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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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