Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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