Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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