Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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