Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery ceiling reached becomes a floor.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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