Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt’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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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