I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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