The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSingle-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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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