Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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