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People Quotes by Aldous Huxley

65 People quotes by Aldous Huxley

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Gratitude is shown as a way to notice that life isn’t as bad as it could be. The quotes warn that propaganda can erase the humanity of certain groups, making us forget they are people too. They also imagine a future where a pill could make people love their own servitude, turning dictatorship into a quiet habit.

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“O brave new world that has such people in it.”

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

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The only completely consistent people are the dead.

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The only consistent people are the dead

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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

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...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays…

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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

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If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles… They have to be caught. And only the people who've got…

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

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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize…

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you…

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The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the…

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The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder…

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For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as…

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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…

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But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations…

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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's…

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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…

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What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing,…

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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are…

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Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of…

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The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several…

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What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled…

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At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,…

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You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;…

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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the…

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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

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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…

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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

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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…

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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.

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In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion…

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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and…

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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,…

“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,…

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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done…

“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now…

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain…

“Quote of the day:Quote of the day: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be…