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Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley
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“In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual.… Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man’s biological nature.”

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Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 21)

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“Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.”

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Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 106)

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“However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.”

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Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 24)

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“It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.”

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Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 22)

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“The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.”

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Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 6 (p. 48)

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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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Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 6 (p. 47)

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“Rational and kindly behavior tends to produce good results and these results remain good even when the behavior which produced them was itself produced by a pill.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited

"Brave New World Revisited" (1956), in Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1977), p. 99