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Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963

Philosopher

Brave New World is his most influential work, depicting a chillingly controlled, technological dystopia where citizens are genetically engineered, conditioned, and drugged into complacency. It serves as a permanent warning about the dangers of losing individuality and human connection to absolute state control.

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Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you

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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

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

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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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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

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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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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.

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

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.

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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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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

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

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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

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About Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher best known for his 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World, which critiqued mass production, technological control, and social conditioning.

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