If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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The more you know, the more you see
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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