Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEYReality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The 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.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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