Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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