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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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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 greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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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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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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