If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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