Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLove casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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 survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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