Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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