Aldous Huxley quotes - page 3

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. (Aldous Huxley)
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
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Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense.
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. (Aldous Huxley)
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.
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One is all for religion until one visits a really religious country. Then one is all for drains, machinery, and the minimum wage.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - 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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education. (Aldous Huxley)
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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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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