The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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