Aldous Huxley Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

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

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

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

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The more you know, the more you see

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

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

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

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

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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

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

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

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.