Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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