Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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