Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHitler’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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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 world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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