People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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