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In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

Marriage, Society, Future, Cynicism, Relationships, Societal Prediction

In a few years no doubt marriage licences will be

In a few years no doubt marriage licences will be

In a few years no doubt marriage licences will be

Aldous Huxley’s Quotes On Topics

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“If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.”

Cloning, Society, Problem-solving, Technology, Dystopian Concept, Human Engineering

“It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.”

Kindness, Simplicity, Personal Growth, Human Interaction, Life Lesson, Moral Philosophy

“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks – already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”

Conditioning, Association, Learning, Nature, Human Influence, Psychological Manipulation

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”

Heaven, Alcohol, Religion, Human Nature, Societal Critique, Historical Observation

“Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.”

Love, Pleasure, Laughter, Pain, Human Experience, Emotional Balance

“Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.”

Death, Decay, Manners, Irony, Philosophical Observation, Dark Humor

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

Democracy, Information, Choices, Citizenship, Political Awareness, Societal Responsibility

“Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.”

Gratitude, Appreciation, Human Nature, Perspective, Positive Psychology, Interpersonal Relations

“Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.”

Prosperity, Resources, Sustainability, Environmental Concern, Philosophical Warning, Economic Insight

“The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.”

Authorship, Identity, Literature, Humor, Historical Uncertainty, Logical Absurdity

“Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.”

Pageantry, Politics, Art, History, Manipulation, Societal Observation

“In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.”

Religion, Purpose, Truth, Unity, Spiritual Insight, Philosophical Statement

“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”

Nature, Compassion, Intelligence, Survival, Environmental Ethics, Philosophical Warning

“Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”

Happiness, Byproduct, Process, Achievement, Unexpected Reward, Life Perspective

“The only truly consistent are the dead.”

Consistency, Death, Human Nature, Change, Philosophical Observation, Dark Humor

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”

Truth, Lie, Excitement, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Observation

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

Good Intentions, Consequences, Human Nature, Morality, Societal Critique, Philosophical Insight

“Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.”

Life Cycle, Beauty, Mortality, Love, Continuity, Poetic Observation

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.”

Intellectuals, Masses, Rationality, Facts, Critical Thinking, Knowledge Pursuit

“Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.”

Imagination, Contrast, Spirituality, Urbanity, Mental Escape, Personal Reflection