One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDon’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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