Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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