The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
-
-
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY