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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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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
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Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
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All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
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A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
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You've got to be hurt and upset otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
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No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
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Ending is better than mending.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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But then people don't read literature in order to understand they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society Providence takes its cue from men.
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