The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHigher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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