An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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