Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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