He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHe accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEY