He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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