Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

• Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

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  Fear Of Love, Goodness, Casts

  Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.51, Ivan R. Dee

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• Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

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  Giving, Addiction, Desire

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• One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

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  Believe, Belief, Brave New World Technology

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

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  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

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  Years, People, Technique

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• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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  Learning, Health, Men

  Collected Essays (1959) "Case of Voluntary Ignorance"

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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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  Communication, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.47, Random House

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• An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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  Men, Choices, World

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.129, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

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  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

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  People, Choices, Crowds

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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  Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

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  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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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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  Money, Reading, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Devils Of Loudun”, p.368, Random House

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• Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

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  Positive, Ceilings

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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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  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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  Mean, Technology, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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• Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

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  Civilization, Three, Debt

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

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  Medicine, Progress, Medical Science

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• The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

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  World, Illusion

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

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  Fate, Political, Helping

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• Experience teaches only the teachable.

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  Inspirational, Teaching, Experience

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

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  Life, Bullying, Race

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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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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  Stupid, Intelligent, Insane

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.189, Random House

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• The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

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  Generations, Next, Mass

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