Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 3

• Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

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  Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

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

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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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  Powerful, Army, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

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  Guarantees, Statistics, Virtue

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

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• It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Years

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• The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

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  Spiritual, Ignorance, Journey

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• An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

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  Education, Wisdom, Witty

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• The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity And Ignorance, Way

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Liberties are not given, they are taken.

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  Freedom, Taken, Liberty

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• If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Different

  Anthony Astrachan, Aldous Huxley (1984). “Aldous Huxley's Brave New World”, p.71, Barron's Educational Series

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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. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

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  Dream, Growing Up, Men

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  Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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  Beauty, Hurt, Wine

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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.

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  Meaningful, Country, Children

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 11 (p. 106), 1958.

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• All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

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  Mean, Happens, Insignificant

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

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  Art, Fool, Right Time

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• The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

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  Goal, Life Is, Life Goal

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• The more you know, the more you see

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  Conversations With God, Logical, Shoreline

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• The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

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  Lying, Civilization, Waiting

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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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  Happiness, Conscious, Pursuit

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

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, Humanity

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• Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

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  War, Unique, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.100, Transaction Publishers

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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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• How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

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  Voice, Sound, Persuasive

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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  Language Words, Levels, Able

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

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  Past, Brave New World, Thinking

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