The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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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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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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