One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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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.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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