Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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