Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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