The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBy thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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