A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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