One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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