One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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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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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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There 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.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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