Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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Armaments, 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.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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