Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEYI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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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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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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But 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.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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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 intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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