Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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