Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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