People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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 older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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