Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Funny

“... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”

Truth Freedom Knowledge

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Philosophical

“Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”

Believe Government Hypnosis

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Spiritual

“Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.”

Spiritual God Inner Peace

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Wise

“Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.”

Criticism Parody

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Grateful

“Let us be kinder to one another.”

Friendship Kindness

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Spiritual

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.”

World Regard Preoccupation

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Regretful

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”

Dream Growing Up Future

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Wise

“The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.”

Men Brother Sheep

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Philosophical

“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”

Science Knowledge Darkness

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Courageous

“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”

World Culture Pay

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Philosophical

“The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.”

Kind Vision Impossible

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Creative

“Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.”

Mind Alliteration Assonance

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