The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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