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.
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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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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