A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIgnore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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.
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