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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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