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?
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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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