The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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