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Aldous Huxley Quotes

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English Novelist, Writer July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963

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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into whichhe has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records ofother people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness isthe only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts fordata, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called... Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel..."
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.... Aldous Huxley
Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose of its own, and is capable of anything except inteligent action and realistic thinking. Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. Aldous Huxley
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how..."
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "O brave new world that has such people in it."
O brave new world that has such people in it. Aldous Huxley
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget..."
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things..."
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "That’s one of the disadvantages of getting older; you’re..."
That’s one of the disadvantages of getting older; you’re inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people. Aldous Huxley

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