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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
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Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.
Aldous Huxley
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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When the individual feels, the community reels.
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At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
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Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.
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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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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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In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
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And no wonder for the new technique of subliminal projection, as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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