To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIgnore 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?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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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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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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